A Traverse Of Your Financial Life
It was the summer of 2019 and I was finally getting around to attempting a long time bucket list item. I was setting out on a single day traverse of the Presidential Range in the majestic White Mountains of New...
Category: financial independence
Be A Tourist On The Way To Financial Independence
Regular readers know the drill but if you’re new to my blog I’m a geography and mapping nerd who’s always on the hunt for online mapping tools that have relevance to finances and financial independence. Today I have a short...
Is Interest In Financial Independence And FIRE A Bull Market Phenomenon?
As of this post the S&P is down about 17% in 2022. Bonds are a usual hedge to equity declines, but owning them as a means of diversification hasn’t helped this year. Bonds are down around 14% in 2022 as...
How To Eat Well As A Starving Artist
The starving artist is a concept that has old roots. The idea of pursuing a life making art and suffering the financial consequences has been romanticized in movies and popular culture. As a consumer of art my favorite art form...
The Fallacy Of Preparing For Life
Would you take financial advice from a member of Pink Floyd? Well, maybe not direct financial advice, but how about sage advice that directly affects how you think about money? Recently I was watching a documentary about the Pink Floyd...
The Answer To The Hectic Life
I did a nice beach road trip recently to some of the Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia beaches. In my usual fashion of being active I packed the trip with cycling, running, kayaking, standup paddleboarding, a horrible attempt at traditional surfing,...
The Smugness Of Financial Independence
A few days ago I was on mile 5 of a super early morning run. I don’t like running at 5:30 in the morning, but summers in the D.C. region often make it the best option. With a forecast for...
FIRE Like A Boss On A 1% Withdrawal Rate
If you’re familiar with the FIRE movement then you’re probably familiar with the 4% rule. In a nutshell the 4% rule claims that you can safely withdrawal 4% of your total investments (or net worth) every year, including annual adjustments...
What Is A Spending Threshold And What Is Yours?
If you’re an endurance athlete you might be familiar with lactate threshold. It’s defined as: the level at which the intensity of exercise causes lactate to accumulate in the blood at a faster rate than it can be removed, making...
Beat Monday? No, Beat The Weekend
Have you seen the show called Beat Monday on Outside TV? I haven’t, but Outside recently published the trailer for the second season. As I watched it I couldn’t help but be a bit smug. The narration to the video...
Financial Independence Or Not, Work Will Never Stop
I love reading predictions of the future from the past. When I was a kid in the 70’s and 80’s I thought by 2020 we’d surely have flying cars and that everything would be powered by the sun. Clearly I...
Grease The Groove To Financial Independence
When it comes to sports and working out, I’m an endurance and cardio guy. In a typical week I ride my bike or run 6 days and lift weights one day. I dread weight day. But I also know the...
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