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Your RSU Questions Answered
Over the past year I have hosted multiple free live Q&As to help answer your pressing RSU questions.
Ugh, Interest Rates are Still High — What Are Your Options? (Whether You Own or Rent?)
The big and bummer news this week: Interest rates remain at a 23-year-high, and they’re likely to stay that way for longer than anticipated. Th…
The Bull Market: Are We Due for a Reality Check?
Hi friends, Let’s talk about the bull market. We’ve gotten used to a rising market. Since 2009, the bull run stumbled briefly in March 20…
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Achieve More by Doing Less
Welcome back to First Principles, the newsletter from Afford Anything. In 1896, a young Marie Curie, Polish physicist and mathematician, became fasci…
41 Intriguing Quotes about Family, Endgame & The Little Girl Who Wouldn’t Listen from Pathfinders
This is the third and final post of “intriguing quotes” since the October 31st launch of… Pathfinders It has been two years in the making…
Your Money and Your Health
Parker Hewes, author of Lifelong Youth, shares the 8 health behaviors that are essential for longterm health and wellbeing! Read more → The pos…
The Arizona Experiment!
The thing that drew me to early retirement is freedom, and that’s still the best part of it. Back in 2005, the primary reason for this freedom-…
24 Intriguing Quotes from Pathfinders
Halloween has been my favorite holiday since I was old enough to trick-or-treat. But none has been as special as this October 31, 2023. This i…
Inside Pathfinders’ Letter to Contributors
It is always fun to peek behind the curtain, to have backstage passes if you will, to some cool process or event. Hasan Minhaj, who wrote the forewor…
What to Do About These High Interest Rates
Whoa, have you seen what just happened to interest rates!? Suddenly, after at least fourteen years of our financial world being mostly the same, some…
Reader Case Study: Ex-Pats in Hanoi, Vietnam
Laura and her husband Ethan are from Philadelphia, PA, but have been living in Hanoi, Vietnam for the past two years. Ethan teaches English literatur…
The Comfort Crisis
As with many things in life these days, it all started with an episode of the Peter Attia podcast. In this edition, our nation’s most Badass Doctor w…
The Tail of Gigi The Dog
A question I’ve been getting a lot lately: “What happened to your dog???” I get this question via email, through blog comments, on …
Report: Average Monthly Social Security Benefit by Age
Social Security is a hot button issue today for many reasons. Aside from whether it will still be here when you reach retirement age, many Americans …
How to Build a Kitchen (and Why)
Well, looks like it has happened again. Since the last time we spoke, I got sucked into building my 17th(?) kitchen, and I have finally emerged…
The California Effect
One of the reasons I don’t write as often these days is that my life has gradually evolved into a Personal Finance Bubble. The people around me…
A man of no ambition
A memory came to me this morning while I was walking the dog, a memory of those days when I was fresh out of college and just beginning to work for m…
Lessons From the Badass Muscular Neurobiologist
Have you ever noticed that as a whole, our society has its daily habits almost completely backwards? We’re generally so “busy” that we don’t have tim…
Why I bought a NEW car
I am 53 years old. Never in my life have I allowed myself to buy a car I truly love...until now. This is the story of how I allowed myself to make a …