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What Your Parents Got Wrong About Money (And What They Actually Got Right)
Your parents did their best. That’s the disclaimer we’re putting at the top, right here, before anything else, because this article is going to say some things about the financial lessons you grew up with that might be a little uncomfortable, and we want to be clear from the outset that none of it is…
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Want More Raises, Better Opportunities, and Actual Job Security? Do These Things.
Let’s get one thing out of the way immediately: becoming invaluable at work has nothing to do with being the person who eats lunch at their desk, answers emails at 11 PM, or volunteers for every committee that’s ever existed. That’s not invaluable. That’s exhausting, and it will eventually make you the kind of person…
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The Investment You Missed Is Not the End of Your Story
Let me tell you about a company I fell in love with. Not in a weird way. In the way where you start reading one article, then another, then you’re three years deep into quarterly reports, founder interviews, and YouTube rabbit holes at 11pm on a Tuesday because you simply cannot stop learning about what…
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Dear 22-Year-Old Me: The Five Money Moves I Wish I Had Made When I Was You
It’s graduation season. Somewhere near you, a person in a polyester robe is accepting a diploma, taking approximately four hundred photos, and preparing to make every financial mistake available to them. They’re smart, they’re excited, and they have absolutely no idea what they don’t know. Which is, of course, the defining feature of being 22.…
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What Does “Enough” Actually Mean? How to Define FI on Your Own Terms
The FIRE community is extraordinarily good at math. Ask anyone here what their FI number is and they’ll not only tell you the number, but they can also tell you their savings rate, their expected real rate of return, their projected sequence of returns risk, and their planned withdrawal strategy. They’ve run Monte Carlo simulations.…
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The Hidden Cost of a High Savings Rate Nobody Talks About
There’s a chart that’s changed a lot of lives. If you’ve spent any time in the financial independence community, you’ve probably seen it. It lives on Mr. Money Mustache’s blog, in a post called “The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Early Retirement,” and it’s exactly what it sounds like. The chart shows the relationship between your…
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How to Talk to Your Partner About Money Without It Turning Into a Fight
If you’ve ever tried to explain the concept of financial independence to a spouse who didn’t ask to hear about it, you already know how this goes. You’re excited. You’ve just listened to six podcast episodes back to back. You’ve run the numbers three times and they keep getting better. You sit down at dinner,…
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Stop Panic-Optimizing: When “Good Enough” Is the Best Financial Decision You Can Make
There’s a special kind of financial paralysis that only affects people who are actually doing the right things. It doesn’t happen to the person who has $47 in their checking account and a drawer full of unpaid bills. It happens to you. The person who has already maxed out their 401(k), built an emergency fund,…
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The Market’s on Sale – So Why Do People Run Away?
There’s a peculiar phenomenon that happens in both real estate and the stock market, and it goes something like this: the moment something becomes a genuinely good deal, a large portion of the buying public suddenly develops cold feet, an urgent need to “wait and see,” or a full-blown panic attack. It’s as if the…
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Trust But Verify: A Love Letter to Our Community (And a Warning)
The Financial Independence community is a wonderful, weird little corner of the internet and the world. We talk openly about our net worth. We share our savings rates like they’re baseball stats. We debate the 4% rule with the enthusiasm most people reserve for sports arguments. And when we meet each other in person, whether…