An email to Paul Millerd
Or how I spent over $1000 on a book, and it was worth it. If you've been reading this blog for awhile, you may have noticed a trend in my…
Where the Hell Have I Been?
Vacation and Work, that's where. It's been nearly a month since I wrote anything over here. Thank God I'm not trying to monetize this thing, as I'm sure my sporadic…
We sold $100k worth of stocks! Are we still FI?
We sold a bunch of stocks to spend more on what we value. Here we’ll explore what this means for our financial situation.
The best (and worst) thing about Early Retirement
In early retirement, if you have a bad day it's your fault. This is no different than working life, but you no longer have distractions and scapegoats which make it easy to blame it on something else.
I was wrong, part 567
Financial Coaching, WTF? Yes my friends, for about the millionth time I was wrong about something. One of the nice things about getting older is that this occurrence has stopped…
Your Plan
Well, probably not for you. Unless you're the person I wrote this for. Awhile back a good friend asked me for some general money planning advice. This person is pretty…
Pensions are a Crutch
But I still want one. If you've read my blog before, you know that last year I walked away from a pension worth over million dollars and set off on…
Take the Pain.
Well that sounds happy. Or; the intersection between Buddhist Monks and Cognitive Processing Therapy. We are on the beach of Puget Sound. This is not a nice beach where people…
Random FIRE chronicles
What's been going on as of late. I'm in the middle of writing yet another long post. It's a mix of something I find useful and interesting, with personal stories…
Flow, Flashbangs & Theory
A story of two flow events, and choosing one path afterwards. I stood on the garage roof, peering into the brightly lit second story apartment window a few feet away.…