Author: Sean

We spent tonight wasting fuel. It was late, we had just finished a day of our usual where we added activity after activity. Neither of us slept very well the night prior on account of staying up too long. We had played with nieces and nephews, run errands, attended a birthday party where we played…

A great number of things have happened over the past 8 months. Here’s some highlights, to catch you up: Other than arguably the initial meeting with Aphrodite, none happened in a single day. Each was planned out and then acted on, many over long periods of time. It has come to form a system of…

I am finishing up a shift from one of my jobs this morning after working overnight. Earlier this week, I did lots of work in this industry and in the job in the other industry. It has been busy. I have also spend time learning material needed for future changes to these. I have also…

I’ve been asked what the topic of this blog is. The lifestyle design posts prevent it from being philosophical while the philosophical posts don’t fit an economics blog and the economics blog posts don’t jive with the life updates. This blog is not about those things, not in a vacuum. This blog is about building…

I have talked a lot, on the side, about money on this blog. I have not made it clear, in actuality, how I manage my money to get where I am. This will be a condensed post on 3 topics which will be expanded upon in future posts. Here is how I manage it: At…

Risk and responsibility is a tricky subject, and what it means is often extremely unclear. What amount to take in a given situation is also unclear. Firstly, it must be understood that life, outside of the risks of having a truly random heart attack, getting t-boned by a drunk driver you couldn’t see coming around…

Thanks to Tyler J Disney, who has a blog by the same name, for the name/concept idea, though it goes by many names. I will refer to it more abstract here than he does. Great read, you should google him. Hello again everyone. We’re back in town, for now, post California trip. It really was…

Very few good, lasting things come quickly. Some do. The opportunities for them usual come quickly. Good people who you have to hold on to fast. New job opportunities. However, this is not usually the case, and even those things take persistence. Results are usually seen slowly at first. You notice no day to day…

It is common that we are unhappy with our life in some regard. It is common advice these days to make small, steady changes so as to not overwhelm yourself in order to make the new changes “stick” or some other cushy such program. The benefit of these programs is that they are easy to…

Money is important. On the previous version of this post, you would have seen me evangelizing about early retirement. Early retirement, or as it should be better stated, financial freedom, is still a very achievable and worthy goal. However, I have since discovered some other things. Past a certain point, money ceases to be an…