23: Personal Finance: Budgeting and attacking your debt

Development Best Practices

On today's episode we are pleased to welcome Kamran Ayub, Pluralsight Author, speaker and consultant. Kamran has given many great talks over the years on a variety of technical topics, but a couple years back he started speaking more on Personal Finance for Developers. Today's episode begins a 4-part series that will walk you through the 4 steps toward financial security: Budgeting and attacking your debt; How to Invest Smartly; Socially-responsible investing and how fees kill your ROI; and Tools, security and your retirement savings.
2:10 Best Practices in Marginal Gains
4:40 Why should we care about personal finance?
7:20 Budgeting
8:40 Get rid of the wasted renders
9:15 Data gathering techniques
11:30 How to prioritize and attack debt
Atomic Habits - jamesclear.com
Mr. Money Mustache Blog - https://www.mrmoneymustache.com
Personal Finance Tools:
- Mint from Intuit - https://mint.intuit.com
- Personal Capital - https://www.personalcapital.com
- TillerHQ - https://www.tillerhq.com
- YNAB - You need a budget - https://www.youneedabudget.com
You can reach Kamran at @kamranayub on Twitter and see his Pluralsight courses at https://www.pluralsight.com/authors/kamran-ayub
Make sure to check back in a few weeks for Part II of our Personal Finance series: Investing Smartly.
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