Recommended Resources

Recommended Resources

Money Tools

FI Laboratory

Chart your progress to financial independence in the Mad Fientist's FI Laboratory!

FI Laboratory
Personal Capital

A powerful (and free!) web application for monitoring your portfolio.

Personal Capital

Spreadsheets

FI Spreadsheet

Download the spreadsheet I used on my own journey to financial independence!

FI Spreadsheet
Post-FI Spreadsheet

This is the spreadsheet I use now because it's less time-consuming to update.

Post-FI Spreadsheet

Travel Hacking

Travel Cards App

The credit-card search tool I created to help travelers find the best credit card offers!

Travel Cards App
Card Email Series

Email series that shares the strategy I used to accumulate over 1,000,000 frequent flyer points!

Card Email Series

Online Business

Dreamhost

The web-hosting company that has been serving up the Mad Fientist since the very beginning!

Dreamhost
Libsyn

The company that's hosted the Financial Independence Podcast from the start!

Libsyn
 

Books

The Simple Path to Wealth

This book will teach you everything you need to know to become a successful investor!

The Simple Path to Wealth
Your Money or Your Life

The classic book on financial independence and early retirement!

Your Money or Your Life
Early Retirement Extreme

An academic investigation into the strategies and systems behind early retirement.

Early Retirement Extreme
The Psychology of Money

Important lessons about money and psychology, told through nineteen short stories.

The Psychology of Money
Atomic Habits

This book helped me more than any other with building my ideal post-FI life!

Atomic Habits
Deep Work

Another book that's helped me pursue my goals, especially since leaving my job.

Deep Work

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