Tag: retirement
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What Minimalism Can Teach Us About Finance: A Simple Path to Wealth
If you saw my last post, you’ll know how minimalism can increase your productivity, but did you know it can also increase your wealth? Many people believe that investing in the stock market is a complicated task only the professionals can do, but it can actually be extremely simple. The book, The Simple Path to…
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How to Finance Your Adventure and Your Life
Many young men die at age 25, but are not buried until they are 75 – Often attributed to Benjamin Franklin Ever Wonder How to Save Up for a Big Quest? Ever since I got back from the Appalachian Trail in 2022, I’ve been thinking about how to get back out there. After graduating college…
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Why the Concept of Retirement is Wrong
I was having a conversation with a friend recently and he made the point that our society was very smart to realize that at age 60-65 people retire because they are ready for a slower life (he is around this age himself). He is a very intelligent guy, with a PhD in chemical engineering, and…
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Do You Actually Want all of Your Problems to be Solved?
My original idea for this post was to look 5-10 years ahead and talk about where I hoped to be and live in a happy, fantasy future for a few minutes, which often makes me feel good and hopeful about my current situation, but as I reread The Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau, one…
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Fuck the Joneses! Why would I want to keep up with them?
The Joneses are broke, have debt over their heads, and are going to get divorced (statistically*), why would I want to be like them? Good question, I don’t. I don’t want to live in a suburb house with a payment so large I can barely afford it. I don’t need that new Ford Bronco or…
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An Unconventional Take on an Unconventional Life
Everyone has that one friend that is always in a cool location doing something awesome like climbing the tallest peak in a national park or visiting a new country. I’ve always wanted to be that friend. The person all of your other friends bring up at dinner when you aren’t there because you are going…