Future Me Loves Me
I highlighted the Beths in T.G.I.F. Friday Volume 92, They’re a really cool rock band from New Zealand who have been riding a nice high for the past few years. I was listening to them on a run recently and...
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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...
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...
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