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Summering 2: the Return and the Pull of the Road

A couple months ago, I wrote about our foray into summering. It was our first FIRE-mentality, pseudo-digital nomading experience. How did...

When can physicians start spending money?

Originally published at KevinMD. You may never have created a budget. Not everyone does. For many of us in medicine, our saving so...

Therapy and Counseling

Therapy is particularly stigmatized among the FIRE community. For a community who prides itself on being self-sufficient, resilient, and...

Volunteering

Have you tried unsuccessfully to volunteer? There’s widespread misconception that volunteering is both easy and an easy way to alleviate...

Coaching

Coaching has become a buzzword over the last few years. I remember adult coaches when I was younger. They were brought in to help...

Alternative Work

There are many similarities between the FIRE world and the digital nomad world when it comes to the conditions surrounding taking on new...

Geographic Arbitrage

Real estate as an investment vehicle has been discussed extensively in the FIRE community. Let’s look at it from a different angle....

Introduction to Live FIRE Better

Reading the pages of the online FIRE community’s most successful author-entrepreneurs, one might have the sense that FIRE is similar to...

Communities

Humans are a social species with varying needs for interaction. My mom, for example, loved spending cold winter days alone watching...

Working With a Spouse

Many FIREees come in pairs. The hard work of a couple coupled with vigorous saving and a favorable tax code creates a scenario in which...

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