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Collecting old personal finance books

Last week I mentioned the book The Richest Man in Babylon. Specifically, the stories in it painted a picture of a future life, one that benefited from good financial decisions. Without such a vision, it’s too easy to make financial decisions that are attractive at the moment but will lead to a poorer future. And by “poorer,” I mean it in a wider sense than just monetarily.

These stories were first published separately and only later gathered into one book. Several years ago I found a collection of these individually printed stories and purchased it. My intention today was to report that you can still find these collections at a reasonable price. However, when I searched just now, sellers were asking hundreds of dollars for them. I know that I paid much, much less for mine.

The good news is that the book seems to be in the public domain now in the U.S. So, you can read it for free.

hledger upgrade from 1.34 to 1.40

On my to do list for some time was to get the latest version of hledger, which I finally did. I did two things immediately after brew upgrade finished its work. The first was to check hledger’s version on the command line to confirm the upgrade worked. Yes, brew said the upgrade succeeded, but sometimes you can end up with two versions of a program installed, and the one your run from the command line is the older version. However, no problem here.

The second thing I did was to confirm that iadd was still working. In the past I had a problem where iadd would not work, and I wanted to make sure my upgrading of hledger didn’t cause problems using iadd. Thankfully, iadd works still works fine.