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Hi Everyone, Namaste from India! We came, we saw, we conquered! Not exactly….but we moved and have settled in the world’s largest democracy. Thanks to professional movers, good airline service and support received from my employer in transit accommodation, I couldn’t have asked for a smoother move! I can’t help but wonder about how integrated […]
Hope you are having a great holiday season. As my son would say, ’sup friends? 😊 You may be wondering about the low frequency of posts this month. There is good reason for it. On this New Year’s Eve, I have some big news to share with you! While you have been enjoying your holiday, […]
A nice thing about my job is that I get to travel to new places to do business development work. In the process, I get to savor gourmet meals in good restaurants and experience the local culture or sights, even if only for a couple of spare hours during a business trip. You also gotta […]
The Internet is open to all but is also home to many cozy bubbles that distort reality. It is easy to extrapolate a very specialized, rare thing to a much broader population just because you spend a lot of time within a small group who believes in that thing, talks about it a lot, plans to […]
Today, we take a break from the investing series of articles. I didn’t want to bore you continuously with Excel charts and numbers! We will pick it up next week. Today, we cover a topic of growing interest to many, especially in recent times. Read on… You see them everywhere. Magazines, news articles, blogs, and newsletters. […]
With the traditions of Christmas and other holidays around, Ten Factorial Rocks takes a road less traveled. One of this site’s goals is to find meaning, and it is about ‘finding yourself’ in a spiritual sense. Today, I am presenting an unbroken ancient tradition for over 10,000 years – the oldest recorded continuous human tradition. Unless you have […]
Where we live is a very important decision in our lives. For those in high cost-of-living areas, it can motivate their FIRE-seeking journey and for others already in low cost-of-living areas, it makes their FIRE real or well within reach. The world is full of interesting places with a wide variety of living costs. The earth […]
When it comes to a home, most people look at buy vs. rent decision in isolation. Mainstream finance magazines contribute to this thinking by presenting the numbers of buy vs. rent decision as if those direct costs are the only ones that matter. Some bloggers take this discussion forward (but barely) by including the opportunity cost of investing the down payment or other exclusive house-related costs in an S&P 500 index fund. This is still incomplete. Few people consider the bigger opportunity cost of home ownership while working in a corporate career.
Raman Venkatesh is the founder of Ten Factorial Rocks. Raman is a ‘Gen X’ corporate executive in his mid 40’s. In addition to having a Ph.D. in engineering, he has worked in almost all continents of the world. Ten Factorial Rocks (TFR) was created to chronicle his journey towards retirement while sharing his views on the absurdities and pitfalls along the way. The name was taken from the mathematical function 10! (ten factorial) which is equal to 10 x 9 x 8 x 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 3,628,800.