To Build a Home
To Build a Home It’s a downcast Chicago morning as I duck into the indoor mall to take my morning walk. As so many Halloween’s go, the darkness has begun to set in and...
Category: Early Retirement
Early Retirement and the Efficient Time Frontier
Early Retirement and the Efficient Time Frontier I was trying to make plans with a friend to meet up for coffee the other day. He has been early retired for a few years and...
No, You Are Not Going To Die
No, You Are Not Going To Die My ideas about risk mitigation and the Suze Orman appearance on the Afford Anything podcast produced some interesting responses. One, in particular, gave me pause. It seems...
Early Retirement and the Growth Mindset
Early Retirement and the Growth Mindset By the time you read this post, I will be in the hot seat. I will be in a hotel somewhere, away from my home, waiting to get...
Financial Independence Failures
Financial Independence Failures I think the biggest problem facing the financial independence/retire early community is lack of proof of concept. There are many people out there talking about early retirement, but very few who...
The Mechanics of Half Retirement
Half Retirement As I’ve stated before, I am all about the philosophy of financial independence. The so called why of FI. Thus, I have warned readers not to expect to read much here about...
Death or Early Retirement
Death or Early Retirement I choose early retirement! All joking aside, my father died at the age of forty unexpectedly from a brain aneurysm. He never had the chance to contemplate such ephemeral dreams...
The Buy/Sell Equation
The Buy/Sell Equation As you have already read, I have been spending a lot of time thinking about scaling back on my clinical practice. Such thoughts naturally lead me to question how we in...
The Perpetual Coffee Machine
The Perpetual Coffee Machine While at CampFI this month, my brother came up with the idea of the perpetual coffee machine. Kind of like the perpetual money machine, but not really. You see, my...
Trigger Events
Trigger Events I have thought a lot about retirement lately. As you can tell from my posts about downsizing and fading to early retirement, there are various ways to extricate oneself from W2 employment....
