Be Kind, Make People Laugh, Save Money
A couple of weeks ago I was packing my duffle for a day of climbing on the local crag. I noticed one of my ropes was getting frayed. As a frugal weirdo I almost always use things until they die...
Category: life experience
Forgiveness And Moving On
Years ago I found myself in a remote part of Costa Rica. Drake Bay on the Pacific Coast is a beautiful paradise of lush jungles and slow tropical life, with world class scuba diving. I had just gone through a...
A Dash Of Life
It was 1980, and John Lennon was finally going to release a new album. I wasn’t even 10 yet, but the Beatles were a core part of my life. Lennon had been aloof for a long time, not recording. The...
My Life Is An Iceberg
I’m financially independent. If I wanted to I could totally separate from my job and I’m 99.9% sure I’d never run out of money. Ever. And in case you’re wondering, I wouldn’t even have to withdrawal 4% anually to make...
What My Parents Never Told Me About Chores
If you work a white collar job in front of a computer like I have most of my career, you likely sit for most of the day. Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve heard how sitting too much is bad...
The Slowly Changing Routine Of My Semi-Retired Schedule
I went part time at my job in October 2017 after exceeding my target financial independence net worth. It’s been my intention to keep posting updates on both my new work life as well as my non-work life. I’ve done...
Stop Treating Your Money Like Litter
We crested the ridge and all I saw was another steep slope climbing endlessly up. “This is climbing…” I said to myself, “…stop complaining. This is why you came halfway across the world, get on with it…” We were ascending...
It Doesn’t Get Any Easier, You Just Get Better
My legs were screaming, my heart and lungs exploding out of my chest. I slowly passed a guy sitting on the pavement, surrendered. Another woman sat sobbing in the grass on the side of the road. The hill pitched up...
Poverty, Bubbles, And The Line
I sat there in the passenger seat of my buddy Don’s car. He was in the drivers seat but we weren’t going anywhere. We just sat, drunk off our asses in the parking lot of a strip club in Baltimore. ...
How Being Underpaid Took My Career To The Next Level
Way back last century, I was still just a few years into my government career after leaving the private sector. It was a massive cultural change to go to a government job from a small dot com company, and I...
Swallow Your Pride And Live Below Your Means Once In A While
Back in 2007, while looking for another adventure, I decided I needed to visit the Galapagos Islands. It’s a Unesco World Heritage site and the place where Charles Darwin solidified much of his theory of evolution. Needless to say the...
Persistence Will Get You Everywhere
BOOM! The crack of thunder shook the ground behind us and we started hiking faster back to our tents. At 11,700 feet in elevation, we were still above treeline, and during a lightening storm it’s a dangerous place to be. ...
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