Freedom
How Introverts Experience the Holidays
- How Not To Lose Yourself in Retirement - April 12, 2021
- Are Most Degrees Useless? - March 22, 2021
- Let’s Go Exploring! Stockholm, Sweden: Dark, Twisted, and Beautiful - March 12, 2021
As we near the end of 2020 — aka “the dumpster fire that seemingly never ends”– and COVID-19 continues ruining our holidays with forced shutdowns all over the world, I started to wonder, is there anyone that’s actually benefiting from the cancellation of holidays plans? Could some people actually not just be doing well during this holiday period, but actually thriving? As ludicrous as it seems, believe it or not, one of the (very few) bright spots of the holidays being cancelled by COVID-19, is that 20% of people are somehow feeling better than they did in previous years during […]
How 2020 Taught Us What Really Matters
- FIREDating App’s Creator Speaks Out - April 19, 2021
- Reader Case: Golden Handcuffs - April 16, 2021
- Finding Love During Covid - April 5, 2021
The end of the year is typically a time of reflection. As the holidays arrive, it gives us all a quiet moment to look back on all the things that happened during the year. And while every year has its ups and downs, 2020 will forever stand out as a year we will simultaneously always remember and wish desperately we could forget. This year felt like a goddamned decade. Remember, this year started off with half of Australia on fire. Donald Trump was impeached. The US assassinated an Iranian general, putting America and Iran on the path to all-out war, […]
The Eight Stages of Early Retirement
- How Not To Lose Yourself in Retirement - April 12, 2021
- Are Most Degrees Useless? - March 22, 2021
- Let’s Go Exploring! Stockholm, Sweden: Dark, Twisted, and Beautiful - March 12, 2021
When we first retired in 2015, I had a very different version of retirement in my head. The picture in my head looked something like this: Hand in notice Give my boss the finger Tap dance out of the office Travel the world. Be happy forever. Reality turned out a little differently. Instead of tap dancing out of the office, I hoofed it back to my desk worried that I’d made a huge mistake. All around my co-workers continued answering e-mails, rushing off to meetings, scurrying around doing “important things,” completely oblivious. Later that night, I woke up in a […]
Let’s Go Exploring! Boston
- FIREDating App’s Creator Speaks Out - April 19, 2021
- Reader Case: Golden Handcuffs - April 16, 2021
- Finding Love During Covid - April 5, 2021
People call it the Boston accent. It’s not an accent. It’s a whole city of people saying most words wrong. Louis C.K. When we landed in Boston Logan International Airport back in 2015, I was trying to mentally prepare myself for Boston and the weird way they mispronounce every second word, and admittedly at first we did find it kind of jarring, but after about five minutes our reaction to the Bostonian accent morphed from “annoyance” to “hilarious.” Notable examples: Lady walking around parking lot with her husband: “Where’s the caaahhh?” Twenty-year-old at a bar: “I go to Haaahhhvard.” Older […]
Why the FIRE Space is Full of Introverts
- How Not To Lose Yourself in Retirement - April 12, 2021
- Are Most Degrees Useless? - March 22, 2021
- Let’s Go Exploring! Stockholm, Sweden: Dark, Twisted, and Beautiful - March 12, 2021
Do you hate phone calls? Does the idea of a party give you hives (even before the pandemic)? Do you equate small talk to being waterboarded? If you answered yes to these questions, you might be an introvert. Even though introverts only make up 33% of the general population, they are the overwhelming majority in the FIRE space. Why? Well, as someone who is both extroverted and introverted (also known as ambivert), I tapped into my introverted side during this lockdown (because what else is there to do?) to find out exactly why the FIRE space is packed with introverts. […]
