2025 we hardly knew you. Somehow it’s been both an incredibly long year, and it’s gone bye too fast. I feel like summer happened before I even registered what was going on. And even though we ticked all the boxes for fun fall activities, it was over in a blink. This is going to be… Continue reading 2025 Year in Review
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This is Bad. It Could be Worse
For the past year I have written about needing to make a change at my job. Things have been getting progressively worse since our department fell under the “leadership” of a largely unqualified individual. For one reason or another, this person had an issue with my team and was slowly dismantling it. This week I… Continue reading This is Bad. It Could be Worse
Net Worth Milestone: Two Million
Unlike the time I became a liquid asset millionaire, I’ve known that August 15 2025 would be a milestone day for quite some time. With the current market, and especially Tech sector turbulence, I didn’t think this would be a sure thing. But the positive market conditions held, despite a 20% drop in my own… Continue reading Net Worth Milestone: Two Million
Escape Velocity: The Beginning Part of Space
I usually make it a point to only check my Fidelity account on the 15th of every month (net worth day) unless it’s an RSU vesting period or ESPP (employee stock purchase plan) day. August 1st is one of two annual ESPP days, and I always sell 100% of my ESPP shares immediately as a… Continue reading Escape Velocity: The Beginning Part of Space
Responsibility
(I’m going full stream of consciousness again. I think the long, cold, rainy early spring is getting to me. I’m going to try not to skew too negative and be grateful at some point.) Feed the fish, feed the dog, feed the kids, feed the fucking sourdough, feed myself at some point, but it’s gotten… Continue reading Responsibility
My Goals for 2025
As is my tradition, I’m going to set some major and minor personal, career and family goals for the year. I’m a little late this year because it’s been a whirlwind holiday season and I just haven’t gotten any time in front of the computer in weeks. This year I have to do some hard… Continue reading My Goals for 2025
2024 Goals Reviewed
Here we are with two weeks remaining in 2024 and I can’t believe how little I posted this year. In my defense, I was out enjoying life for most of the year, and then for the rest of the year I was suffering the fallout of reorg hell. Each year I try to set out… Continue reading 2024 Goals Reviewed
Understanding Provisional Living: Break Free from Future Illusions
A while back I wrote about how the book Die with Zero messed with my head. The long and short is that I spent a lot of years of my life focusing on the future and not paying a lot of attention to the present. I talked about how I gave myself permission to spend… Continue reading Understanding Provisional Living: Break Free from Future Illusions
The Big List of Financial Independence and Investing Resources
Friends have started to realize that I’ve managed to make a little money in my life. As such, I keep getting asked about topics like passive income, investing, budgeting, and paying off debt. What I try to explain is that the way I see it, if you want to actually change your financial life, you… Continue reading The Big List of Financial Independence and Investing Resources
What Would You do with $10 Million
I was watching a recent episode of My First Million featuring Nick Gray, who I’d honestly never heard of until this week. Nick is a quirky fellow who seems to throw out ideas like a machine gun, and once again being honest, I kind of like the guy. During the episode, he cited an article… Continue reading What Would You do with $10 Million
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