Erik Hedegaard

So there I was in Mexico, wintering away in the tiny, stray-dog surf town of Punta de Mita, bored out of my skull, not a single rideable wave predicted for the next week, my time mostly spent in mind-numbing internet excursions, when all of a sudden…

Meet one of the best — an investment pessimist and panicker of deep experience. You’ll laugh as he stews and fusses over the year-2000 computer bug. You’ll Shake your head as he stuffs his mattress with cash and prepares for social breakdown. You’ll…

I really wish I’d done what financial adviser Adriane Berg told me to do 12 years ago. I never knew how much I wished it until recently, when I gave her a call. She sighed deeply when I told her I hadn’t taken one word of her advice. She sighed once…

This Is Your Brain On eBay By Erik Hedegaard He had so much: loving wife, adoring daughter (well…), nice home — a life. Then he discovered junk. Not long ago, my wife thought it would be a great idea to unload some of the crap cluttering our house.…

The other day, I spent some time checking out the ads in the back of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities. I love the ads in that magazine. They’re sexy. They promise awesome stock-market riches for almost nothing. For instance, for a mere…

A LESSON WITH LEFTY The Greatest Flycasting Instructor of Ail Time has taughtthousands and thousands and never had a failure. Until now. AT FRESHWATER FLYCASTING, I’m pretty darn good. But when it comes to the long-distance, heavyweight demands of…

You ever wanted something so badly that you didn’t know where to stop and ended up doing crazy stuff until you got it and then sat around scratching your head, wondering what the heck you were thinking in the first place? I’ve felt that kind of itch…

I don’t know about you, but I don’t think life is worth living without a hobby or two. My hobbies have included: model airplanes (lots of noise, lots of expensive crashes), fly-fishing (I sucked – not even the great Lefty Kreh could teach me how to…