Financial Independence is Sorta Irrelevant
Financial Independence is Sorta Irrelevant I have said many times in the past that financial independence is Plan B. An escape hatch when Plan A runs awry. Plan A is life. It’s the purpose,...
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Redefining Financial Independence
Redefining Financial Independence There are may arguments out there about the best path to reaching FI. Some are enamored with frugality while others preach to the god of W2 wages. There are even catchy...
Inheriting a Perpetual Money Machine
Inheriting a Perpetual Money Machine I have boasted in the past about not only being second generation FI but also third generation FI. My path to financial independence, however, was not inherited. Although I...
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....
Post FI Challenge
Post FI Challenge I think it shocks my readers when I say that financial independence is something that once reached needs to be coped with. Believe it or not, it takes a little getting...
YOLO is a No No
YOLO is a No No I have written in the past about the opportunity cost fallacy. In brief, there is an argument that luxury spending saps wealth by obliterating the compounding effect of the...
How This Physician Escaped Medicare
How Does a Physician Escape Medicare? I have a confession to make. I have been planning my escape since the first day I set foot in the office as an attending physician. The writing...
Cheap, Simple, and Easy
Cheap, Simple, and Easy I think it is easy to confuse the trees from the financial forest. In my opinion, financial plans should have roughly four legs. The table should be propped up with...
The Early Retirement Fallacy
The Early Retirement Fallacy You are going to work. When you are young. When you are old. There is no doubt about it. You are going to create some service or product and exchange...
Money Insecurity
Money Insecurity It is easy to paint financial independence as a nirvana. Easy to say that it is a goal that once attained will allay all worries and anxieties. But I think this viewpoint...
