We had been climbing for almost 4 hours and the most dangerous parts were done. Those dangerous parts were why we came in the first place – 3 beautiful pitches of vertical ice attached to the mountain and glistening in...
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...
We were lost. Well, not entirely lost. We were trying to get to the rental car return and departure gates at Luxembourg airport, and failing. I say we weren’t entirely lost because we could see the airport. “Dude”, I said...
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...
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...
If part of your financial independence strategy is pursuing geoarbitrage or if you anticipate moving after achieving FI, where you move matters. Walkable neighborhoods have experienced a resurgence in popularity in recent years. More and more people are realizing the...
Charles Schwab recently released its annual modern wealth survey and the results are more interesting than ever. The study is an annual examination of how 1,000 Americans between the ages of 21 and 75 think about saving, spending, investing, and...
NPR did an article recently about the gig economy that really got me thinking. Firstly, the article cited the research I posted about last year that claims to gig economy is actually getting smaller. This is of course contrary to...
On May 6th 1954 Roger Bannister ran a mile in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds. The 4 minute mile, one of the biggest holy grails of athletic achievement that had been pursued since 1886, finally fell. For 68 years thousands of...
If you’re a new reader and not familiar with my backstory, in a nutshell I became financially independent in my mid-40’s and went down to 20 hours a week at my W2 job. I now spend the newly freed half...
Recently a short video from Suze Orman created a bit of a controversy on social media. Granted everything is a controversy on social media these days, but I found this one particularly interesting. Orman recorded a short video called “how...
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