The 15-Hour Workweek: A Lost Dream or a Future Reality?
The founding father of macroeconomics, John Maynard Keynes, predicted we’d all be working just 15 hours a week by 2030. The idea was that our prosperity would shoot through the…
The Calculus of Regret: Life Fulfillment Over Financial Comfort
As someone who's reached a respectable level of success in law, it's tempting to coast on the inertia of that success. But those legal briefs and billable hours, while lucrative,…
The Elasticity of Time: What Parental Leave Taught Me About Life’s Speed
"Clocks offer at best a convenient fiction. They imply that time ticks steadily, predictably forward, when our experience shows that it often does the opposite: it stretches and compresses, skips…
The Art of Timing: Why Some Life Experiences Shouldn’t Wait
It's easy for us to optimize our lives to save as much money as possible. But we should also get the most value out of time and experiences. The goal…
The key to a high savings rate is understanding happiness
Once you've reached at least a middle-class income, the fastest way to reach financial independence is, counterintuitively, to increase your savings rate, rather than your income. Play around with this…
Farming: A Net Positive Force for Our World
Once you reach financial independence (FI), I believe you should only do work you would do for free. This is a personal question that only you can answer. For me,…
Transforming Your Savings into a Lifetime Income Stream
Now that we are saving a bunch of money with our high savings rate, what do we do with all that money? The answer is simpler than you think: invest…
The Art of Mindful Spending: Achieving Early Retirement Through Minimalism and Strategic Saving
The key to achieving financial independence at a young age is maintaining a high savings rate. Contrary to the 5 to 10% savings rates advocated by mainstream financial planners, early…
Navigating Early Retirement: Valuable Insights from Parental Leave and the Unlikely Merits of a ‘Job’
I've been viewing my current parental leave as a dress rehearsal of sorts for early retirement. It has been a privilege to have unlimited time to spend with my newborn…
The Opportunity Cost of NOT Quitting your Job
Take a look at this chart from one of my favorite writers, Tim Urban. It's a visual representation of an average human life, broken down into months. As you study…