{"id":2,"date":"2016-04-05T08:55:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T08:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-04-17T16:54:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T16:54:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee&#8217;s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my blog, where I share thoughts on various topics that I have varying levels of expertise in. I started this blog because it was a requirement for <a href=\"http:\/\/mitmassive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MIT Massive<\/a> (which also spurred me to <a href=\"http:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/why-i-made-a-personal-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">make a personal website<\/a> in the first place), so many of the posts are related to education. Now that the class is over, I&#8217;ve branched out a bit in terms of content matter. I&#8217;ve written some posts on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/category\/mit-massive\/\">MIT Massive<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/category\/life-at-mit\/\">Life at MIT<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/category\/heat-transfer-thermodynamics\/\">Heat Transfer &amp; Thermodynamics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/category\/gaming\/\">Gaming<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/category\/personal-finance\/\">Personal Finance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/category\/uncategorized\/\">Miscellaneous<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also see snippets of my most recent posts below.<\/p>\n<h2>Recent posts:<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/personal-finance\/why-do-people-borrow-using-constant-p2p-lending\/\">Why Do People Borrow Using Constant P2P Lending?<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(5\/8\/2020)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">I like to dabble in different types of investments, and as a consequence of this I have small amounts of &#8220;play money&#8221; (that is, money I can afford to completely lose) in almost all the different categories of investment available to someone who isn&#8217;t an accredited investor. One of the first investments I tried (and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/personal-finance\/why-do-people-borrow-using-constant-p2p-lending\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Why Do People Borrow Using Constant P2P Lending?\"<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/personal-finance\/is-sustainable-investing-actually-helpful\/\">Is Sustainable Investing Actually Helpful?<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(3\/30\/2020)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">I graduated a couple years ago, but it&#8217;s only recently that I&#8217;ve had a cushy full-time job that pays me significantly more than I need to live comfortably. And that means that despite my interest in personal finance and retiring early, I am finally succumbing to some lifestyle creep. Fortunately for my wallet, I still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/personal-finance\/is-sustainable-investing-actually-helpful\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Is Sustainable Investing Actually Helpful?\"<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/2019s-resolutions\/\">2019&#8217;s Resolutions<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(1\/2\/2020)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">I don&#8217;t normally make new year&#8217;s resolutions, because if I notice a change I want to make in my life, I start right away. However, for 2019, I did happen to make two resolutions that started along with the new year. Since I shared those on the blog (I guess to hold myself accountable), I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/2019s-resolutions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"2019&#8217;s Resolutions\"<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my blog, where I share thoughts on various topics that I have varying levels of expertise in. I started this blog because it was a requirement for MIT Massive (which also spurred me to make a personal website in the first place), so many of the posts are related to education. Now that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/2019s-resolutions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2019&#8217;s Resolutions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}