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Coastal California is paradise for everything but your wallet. You can hit the waves and hike the mountains in the same day. World cuisines collide in novel deliciousness (LA’s Kogi Taco Truck craze started when a Filipino-American chef who grew up devouring local Mexican food married into a Korean family). 13 years ago this month I had to dig my …
This post takes it title from a charismatic flight attendant’s announcement prior to takeoff on a recent flight from California to Texas. It resonated for me. Like many other FI bloggers, I’m a recovering neurotic transitioning to calm. Also like these bloggers, now that I’ve got the big rocks in my financial life straightened out, there’s a lot of free …
In the FI blogging world, certain names get referenced by folks whose opinions you respect until you reach a tipping point and decide to spend a few hours digging through their website to see what the hype is all about. Ms. Montana at Montana Money Adventures was toasted by so many of the bloggers I admire that I prepared myself …
It’s the one year anniversary of Leonard Cohen’s death. Here’s my tribute. You’re probably thinking I shouldn’t quit my day job. Once I reach my FI number, I may just quit anyway! (For best results, play the video and read the revised lyrics below in time to the music) And who by FIRE, who will early retire Who will …
This weekend I went back country camping with a close friend in Northern California, witnessing the residual smoky haze of the fires firsthand as we snaked along Interstate 80 in poor visibility en route to the Western Sierras. My thoughts at the time were with EJ at Dads, Dollars and Debts, who lives in the area. A week earlier, I …
In the years following WWII, the U.S. helped Japan rebuild infrastructure and institutions. From that time onward, the relationship has been mostly a bromance. Our nations have arguably become the Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson of the G-8, putting one another in playful headlocks when negotiating Pacific trade agreements or playing wingman when a cute vulnerable bachelorette country finds itself …
John Maynard Keynes, famed British economist, was a piece of work. He developed and promoted modern macroeconomic theory. Government monetary policy during the Great Recession of 2008 was based directly on his ideas, which many credit with having prevented a full-blown depression. He was openly bisexual in the Victorian era (!), and kept diaries in which he tabulated his conquests …
The FI movement consists of a fringe group of people scattered across the globe who shun conventional consumer culture. Could the experience of such a tiny group of individuals with deviant financial behavior and limited means someday have an outsize impact on the world? Stranger things have happened. Read on for a far-fetched tale of improbable impact by a misfit …
Every now and again I succumb to sappier impulses. It must have been from watching too many reruns of When Harry Met Sally back in the day. Forgive the indulgence!Makes 1 heaping serving of financial independence. Cooking time: Approximately a decade and a half after residency, depending on student debt, specialty income, and spending. 1 jar of resident lifestyle preserves …
Since this blog is in many ways a time capsule from the current version of me to the person I was 15 years ago, there are concepts that occasionally resonate with the unencumbered new attending far more than they do with the married father of two with a mortgage and a bum shoulder. One such idea is the concept underlying …