Saturday, May 29, 2021

Life as a training arena for the stoic virtues

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Antinous is the true stoic of us. If anyone would rate the four stoic virtues, Antinous would clearly come out on top. Antinous wears a bett...
Sunday, May 23, 2021

Truly not a slave: when the paycheck looses its attraction

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What would your boss say if you came in and requested a 40% salary increase for the next year? And a 40% increase the year after that? Would...
Sunday, May 9, 2021

Volatility from a 5 year perspective: Welcome to the 1825 days year

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Once upon a time, at the birth of our solar system, the time for the earth to spin around the sun became the 365 1/4 days we are used to. It...
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

The built-in Identity Crisis of work-life: How Dante's Inferno got it right

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A common way to enter the fire community seems to be to go through some kind of mid-life crisis. Identity, crisis and burn-out At the core o...
Saturday, April 24, 2021

Portfolio Stability And A Good Night's Sleep

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If one goes to a place like portfoliocharts (strongly recommended for the interested asset allocator), there's a concept that we have st...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

There's Nothing More Important Than Our Freedom

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Lucilius was trying to go back in memory and see how the seeds to his quest for freedom, including financial freedom, was born.  The First S...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

Thinking too much or too little

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We think that there's a dichotomy between thinking too much and too little in the financial freedom-sphere. One could call it oversimpli...