FIRE Life Update-Working?
More work, less retire Holy heck, it's been a bit since I did a straight update post. Actually, it's been a bit since I've done any post. You know why?…
Vader Reply
Brevity is not my strong point. To quote the great metacognitive philosopher Britney spears-”whoops, I did it again”. A reader named Vader posted a few comments with some questions. Some…
How to do nothing
Executing the "chill" portion of VTSAX and chill. When people ask me how I retired early, I usually reply with "high savings rate and index funds". If I'm trying to…
Rice & Beans
They're actually pretty good. A weird thing happened last week. I got a book in the mail, opened it, and saw six pages that I'd written. Surreal. Of course I'm…
Brightside
Into the hall alone, my son? Now hear your mother's prayer. Go back onto the battlefield And aid your father there. I'd far prefer your blood be spilled Like water…
Thoughts, or lack thereof
What you want and how you'll feel when you get it are as different as strangers who hate each other though they've never met. Are they truly separate? Or are…
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.