Tagged: gratitude

September 26, 2023

Just Stop Being Complainy, Please

Last week the original battery in my Subaru Outback finally died. It lasted a whopping 8.5 years which is amazing. I of course drive way less than the average American and only have 51k miles on an almost nine year...

book review

February 1, 2019

Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path To Joy by Mo Gawdat, Review

I’m a pretty pragmatic person. I was always good at math and tend to look at things quantitatively. So when I heard about a book about happiness written by the Chief Business Officer of Google X and a tech nerd,...

psychology

November 20, 2018

The Aggregation Of Marginal Conveniences

Ugh, out of ice cubes again. What a pain. I have to pour water from my water filter into my two ice cube trays and put them back in the freezer. Back in April my 25 year old refrigerator started...

life experience / psychology

January 2, 2018

Starving Cows, Generosity, And Having Enough

The cows were standing in the middle of the road somberly staring at our car, famished, ribs protruding out, barely looking alive. They clearly weren’t going to budge, and by the looks of them they likely didn’t have the energy. ...

miscellaneous

December 23, 2017

2017 Summary, Proud And Grateful

This was the year I did it. As I sit here looking back on my 2017 and realize where I’m at now, I’m proud and grateful. Proud because I finally started to fully reap the benefits of the smart financial...

financial independence

November 28, 2017

Can Everyone Achieve Financial Independence If They Just Try?

If you follow the online FIRE community you’ve no doubt read a blog post or two that said something like “anyone can retire early”, or “I retired at 30 and you should too!” Recently there’s been a lot of talk...

hobbies / side-hustle

November 19, 2017

My Semi-Retirement Anxiety Problem

So if you’ve been following my story you know that I reached financial independence a couple of years ago and ‘semi-retired’ to part time employment this past October. You could call this a mini-retirement, sabbatical, work-detox, whatever. It’s been a...