Are gym memberships worth the money?
These 6 questions can help you decide whether a gym membership belongs in your budget.
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These 6 questions can help you decide whether a gym membership belongs in your budget.
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If youâve ever considered starting your own business, then the thought has probably crossed your mind: Whatâs an LLC, and do I need one? LLC, which stands for limited liability company, is a great option for small business owners looking for a way to get legally established. Not only does this business structure make your […]
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Resellers are a critical link in the commerce chain, connecting consumers and manufacturers. The ecommerce landscape is attracting a steady stream of resellers as consumers are showing a growing interest in quality used goods. Stalwarts like Amazon and eBay have been joined by smaller players, such as RealReal, ThredUP, and Carvana. The list seems endless, […]
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Roofstock announced last week raising Series E funding in the amount of $240 million. This increases the single-family rental investment platformâs overall valuation to $1.94 billion.Â
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Deciding what to do with your retirement payout when it comes is difficult for most retirees. Thinking about which financial advisor to trust with that function can be intimidatingânobody likes the thought of losing their life savings to an ill-considered investment. In short, financial literacy is a widespread and growing problem. Well, the smart people […]
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Without realizing it, college students could be leaving stimulus money on the table. If youâre a student, hereâs what you may be eligible for.
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Homeownership fintech startup Lower has launched a new mortgage-as-a-service (MaaS) platform that enables consumer finance, banking, and real estate brands to offer mortgage financing. According to the company, the new platform allows businesses to offer a “digital-first home financing experience quickly and easily, with white-label options available.” Additionally, the Lower MaaS platform can be embedded … [Read more…]
New American Funding now offers EasyKnock’s residential sale-leaseback program, allowing clients to access their home equity.
The annual Innovation, Opportunity & Investment (iOi) Summit brings together over 500+ of the industry’s top tech companies, investors, and REALTOR® members to collaborate, network, and address concerns regarding the future of real estate. At iOi, your tech leader peers join ranks to pool talents…
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Today, I’m pleased to present a guest article from one of my favorite money bloggers of all time: Jacob Lund Fisker. Fisker founded Early Retirement Extreme in 2007. It quickly became an influential voice for the nascent FIRE movement. In fact, I think it’s fair to say that FIRE wouldn’t be what it is today with his work.
Fisker retired from blogging in 2011. Since then, he and I have exchanged long emails on sometimes arcane subjects. Occasionally I ask him for advice. Recently, I asked him if he’d be willing to update people on where he’s been and what he’s been doing for the past decade. He agreed.
Here, then, is Fisker’s story of life after Early Retirement Extreme (and extreme early retirement). Be warned: His story is not short.
Starting in 2007 (and largely finishing by 2011), I formalized a philosophical alternative to consumerism in the form of a 1000+ post blog and 100,000+ word book [J.D.’s review], which I mistakenly called “Early Retirement Extreme” (or ERE in acronym form). These days, I stick to the acronym form. 😛
Central to my philosophy was the renaissance ideal of spending your life mastering a productive level of competence in a broad range of subjects. This arsenal of “renaissance skills” would then be combined into a mutually reinforcing web-of-goals, which made living more interesting and balanced â but also more cost- and resource-efficient and resilient in the face of the growing complexities and uncertainties of the 21st century.
Being a theoretical physicist by training (and remaining one in spirit) compelled me to present all of this as a theory of everything, rather than the more typical format of a light non-fiction autobiography or overview. As I didnât really figure on a general audience â it was fairly non-existent back in 2008 â that also meant using graphs and equations when applicable.
The benefit of that format was that others could use the ERE design principles to construct their own particular plan according to their own individual circumstances and goals instead of retracing the footsteps of one particular individual.
Eventually, I considered the problem of “How to escape the earn-buy cycle in order to live a more interesting life” solved and sufficiently “communicated”. In 2011, I stopped blogging. I continued to follow the ERE principles in the spirit of the renaissance ideal with the goal of solving other big problems. Being financially independent (FI), I no longer require any compensation even if I still appreciate it â if nothing else than just to keep score or divert the lucre towards more useful purposes (e.g. supporting people on Kiva or Patreon).
Career workers who don’t know me typically ask me what I do for a living, expecting an answer in the form of a job title. (That tends to get awkward and I still don’t have a clever response.)
Similarly, people in the FIRE community (and the media that now covers it since they discovered it a couple of years ago) expect a curriculum vitae in the form of instagram-friendly bucket-list of accomplishments. However, following the systems-based web-of-goals approach, it’s really hard to answer that in a way that satisfies linear formats.
I follow many different leads and do many different things â often concurrently â and sometimes in ways where they combine and result in new, unexpected opportunities (the serendipity effect). It’s therefore difficult to summarize the last ten years of my life in chronological order, so let me instead attempt it as a “skill” or activity-based resume in no particular order.
This format makes more sense since the ERE strategy is to learn something and add value to the process and its environment, a side-effect of which is that I usually don’t have to pay to solve problems and that I sometimes get paid. As a consequence, my spending also remains ridiculously low. (I’ll get to that near the end of this article.)
I apologize that this is long and boring, but ten years is a long time and one can get a lot done in ten years â not all of which might be as interesting to the reader as it is or was to me. So, for the sake of completeness and in no particular order, and perhaps with the hope that I don’t have to write another autobiography for the next ten years, here’s a first-hand answer to the question: “Whatever happened to Jacob Lund Fisker?”