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As a parent, I have two main concerns for my children. The first is economic stability. Will they be able to earn a livable wage in a world where AI keeps eating entry-level jobs? I question the time and money we spend educating our kids all the time. So I've been aggressively saving and investing […]

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I’m a proponent of stealth wealth. It makes for a more peaceful life with lower expectations and less scrutiny. The last thing you wanna do is show off and put you and your family in danger. Stealth wealth is also the natural endgame of following FIRE principles for decades. If you keep living well below […]

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As my public equity portfolio gets obliterated thanks to being overweight tech stocks, something interesting happened. Once I stopped feeling sorry for myself, I started to look on the bright side. We're not in an official bear market, yet. But plenty of individual tech names have already fallen by over 20%, and when you're overweight […]

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The middle class is the best class in the world. It is the largest class, which means it’s the most important class. Politicians pander to us by saying nice things and giving us all sorts of random benefits, like the child tax credit or stimulus checks if you make a middle-class income. But once you […]

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The popular image of a FIRE practitioner is someone eating rice and beans, clipping coupons, and driving a car older than their kids. All luxuries are shunned in order to grow their wealth as large as possible to break free sooner. FIRE folks are cheap and should enjoy life more critics say. There's some truth […]

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I’ve been a Google shareholder since 2010 and I'm thankful. But yesterday’s earnings, and the 12% collapse that followed, left me thoroughly disappointed. Search is under siege. Gemini isn’t leading the AI race. And Google is spending like a drunken sailor to catch up. Spending $200 billion in CAPEX is more than the GDP of […]

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With Anthropic’s S-1 now filed with the SEC, over 5,000 employees are about to become extremely wealthy. We’re talking about the median employee making $3 million to $10 million within three years, and likely at least a thousand people making well into eight figures or more. The numbers behind it are astounding. The filing shows $16.3 billion […]

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