Category Archives: CurrentLife
Three Weeks Off Series, Part 2
Confession: Toward the end of my second week off, I had a nightmare.
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Three Weeks Off Series, Part 1
Most weekends don’t feel all that restful because of errands.
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Three Weeks Off Series, Part 0: Prelude
I’m taking three weeks of vacation all at once.
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Quiz: Revealing Your Inner FI
So you’ve reached your FI number and you’re ready to walk the plank off the good ship Employment to see what awaits you in the wide-wide world.
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Cultural Guardians
If you have a high savings rate and are working toward financial independence, chances are good that you’ve run into some issues sharing your goals and dreams with other people in your life.
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The Value of Work
In America, the act of laboring is considered to be a moral good, to be universally praised in and of itself. Put another way, we value work for the sake of work.
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A Day in the Life Part 4: Good Deed Avoidance
Remember that “Closed for Maintenance” page you got when you tried to visit lolcatz.com at 4AM after a hard night of drinking? I was probably the geek working on the system at that time. For IT workers, off-hours work is … Continue reading
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Top 10 Reasons to Pursue Financial Independence
Today I learned that there’s an entire website devoted to Top 10 lists, and yet there isn’t a single one for why people might want to pursue financial independence.
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Learning to FI
It’s come to this. Talent vs. hard work. Nature versus nurture. Armageddon.
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A Day in the Life Part 3 : Paperwork
I have paperwork. You have paperwork. We all have paperwork.
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Living a FI 