It’s a new year and time to do my annual business review. If you’re not familiar with my story I semi-retired to 20 hours a week at my main job in 2017 after reaching financial independence years before. Since then...
If you’re like most, your job is a source of stress. Actually it’s probably the leading source of stress: According to the Center for Disease Control/National Institute on Occupational Safety & Health, the workplace is the number one cause of...
I’ve written before about how I moved up pretty fast in my career in the federal government. Having come from a tough job in the private sector I found standing out in the government to be easy. I just worked...
Regular readers have heard me mention it before, but if you’re not one of them, this blog is slowly dying. My traffic numbers peaked in late 2020 and have been steadily declining since. Perhaps it’s warranted and the quality of...
First things first, I didn’t do what the title says 🙂 This is my first attempt at joining the bottom-dwelling world of clickbaity bloggers who use salacious and misleading titles to gain clicks, and probably my last. If you’re new...
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...
In 2020 when covid took off it launched an unprecedented bike boom. Millions of people who hadn’t ridden a bike since they were a kid looked to get one, or pulled their long forgotten old clunker out of the garage...
I wrote about the Great Resignation last year, it’s been a popular topic especially in personal finance circles. That post focused on the amount of new businesses being created while record numbers of “quits” were simultaneously recorded. Resignations, or ‘quits’,...
I’ve been part time at my main W2 job for well over 4.5 years now. Not 32 hours a week, but a scant 20 hours a week. A drastic change like that after almost 25 years of full time workaholism...
I still vividly remember that first day as if it were yesterday. It was a picture perfect bluebird October morning and the Potomac River was glass-flat and empty. As I took my first few paddle strokes away from the boat...
A little while back on a ride a cycling friend asked me “Is there any outdoor sport you don’t do?” I had just mentioned to him how my ice climbing went this past winter, and my excitement for some upcoming...
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...
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2024 Activity Tracker
Cycling: 5022 Miles
Running: 314 Miles
Hiking: 46 Miles
Paddling: 86 Miles
Climbing Days: 1
2023 Activity Tracker
Cycling: 5400 Miles
Running: 472 Miles
Hiking: 37 Miles
Paddling: 96 Miles
Climbing Days: 6
2022 Activity Tracker
Cycling: 5408 Miles
Running: 321 Miles
Hiking: 43 Miles
Paddling: 40 Miles
Climbing Days: 7
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