Leave it up to a bunch of personal finance nerds to start branching out and creating subcategories of a simple concept. Financial Independence/Retire Early (FIRE). When you spell out the acronym it says it all really. Then there are subcategories of FIRE, Fat FIRE and Lean FIRE. The definitions are easily searchable in Reddit here: Fat FIRE and Lean FIRE. I've read … [Read more...] about Why My Focus is on Financial Independence, not Retire Early
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Path to the First One Million Dollars
I thought it’d be an interesting exercise to revisit the climb to the first million ($1M) since it was such a big milestone for my wife and I. We both dreamt about such a milestone in our 20’s but it was not always easy to visualize. Still stuck with some student loans, living in an apartment, and both on steep learning curves early in our careers, $1M seemed really far … [Read more...] about Path to the First One Million Dollars