This article describes how I track and reconcile my LendingClub investments, using the iBank personal finance software. This method should be equally valid for people using Quicken.In iBank, I set up my LendingClub account as if it were a brokerage account in which I’m purchasing securities; in this case, I’m purchasing a security I’ve named LendingClub (equivalent to a stock, e.g. AAPL). From there, tracking the investment simply involves mapping line items from the LendingClub statements to concepts normally involved in securities investment tracking, through the process of monthly reconciliation.

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Speaking with people of different religious beliefs, I’ve always found it curious to hear a common viewpoint, that goes something along the lines of:

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This article discusses a strange issue related to the OS X 10 firewall, mysteriously restarting itself, and disallowing traffic to applications that should be whitelisted.

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At Makalu, we’re longtime users of Basecamp, the online project management system created by the folks at Basecamp (formerly 37signals). 37signals care deeply about design, and this is evident pretty much everywhere in the user experience of their products.Recently, we started using the Bitbucket git repository management system, by Atlassian. So far, it has not seemed evident that the people at Atlassian care as deeply about user experience.

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After reading about Facebook’s $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp, I started thinking about the revenue and public valuations of the giant advertising companies—Google, Facebook and Twitter—as compared to that of Apple:

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A few months ago, a frequent-traveler named “Matthew Henderson” from New York City signed up at Delta.com, accidentally providing my Gmail email address instead of their own (which is likely some minor variant of mine.) Since then, I’ve been the lucky recipient of nearly weekly email notifications regarding Matthew’s ticket purchases, travel plans and seat upgrades. Next week, in fact, Matthew is traveling to Cancun—lucky guy!How could this have happened?

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I have a MacBook Air, and my wife has an iMac. The challenge is to have shared access to our family’s documents, while securing those which are confidential. This article describes our solution.

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A few weeks ago, and way late to the game, I started listening to podcasts. Of the several I’ve heard so far, the ones I enjoyed have included Horace Dediu’s “The Critical Path”, Benedict Evans’s “Cubed”, Gabe Weatherhead and Erik Hess’s “Technical Difficulties” and Shawn Blanc’s “The Weekly Briefly”. The ones I’ve disliked have included John Gruber’s “The Talk Show” and Marco Arment’s “Accidental Tech”.

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