Hey Baby, Can I Get Your (Retirement) Number?
For the record, I’ve only once asked a girl for her number. It was October 2007 and I was out in Fells Point in Baltimore. […]
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Is Your Life Up In The Air?
I’m a pretty firm believer in transparency. As Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” There is something endearing about a person who […]
Withdraw Your Retirement Accounts In Your 30s. No Taxes. No Penalties.
I’ve been writing a contract proposal for my 9 to 5 this past week. Unfortunately, this kind of proposal isn’t as easy as this kind […]
The Routine is the Enemy Of Time
Simply as a cause of there being so much out there, the vast majority of everything on the internet is going to be non-applicable to […]
My Retirement Roadmap: First Mile Marker
If you want to follow along with my own journey toward financial independence and early retirement, and to understand my thought process and the numbers […]
Early Retirement Lessons from a 30-Mile Run
I’m 30 now, and the “29” in Retire29 is officially dead. As I enter the decade of my life in which I’ll retire, the need […]
Breaking Early Retirement
Google X takes a rather ingenious approach to failure. The spin-off of Google, headed by the aptly-named Astro Teller, is in the business of moonshots. […]
Everybody Makes Huge and Reckless Financial Mistakes
I dreaded looking at my annual taxable brokerage statements for years. In my Roth IRA, where I follow a rather strict buy-and-keep buying-and-hold-forever trading strategy, I’ve done […]
Retirement: A Brief History of an Arbitrary Construct
For most of human history, there was no such thing as retirement. Old people were revered, worshiped, or (in some Himalayan cultures) eaten out of […]
How Are Those Jeans Affecting Your Retirement Date?
Every so often a product, service, or idea comes along that seems tailor-made for the financial independence community. These are things that get each of […]