Mad Fientist Archives

This is a list of all the posts I’ve published, grouped by category.

If you’d rather explore everything as part of a story (which includes the reasoning behind why I wrote the articles that I did), check out this post.

Tax Avoidance

• Traditional IRA vs. Roth IRA – The Best Choice for Early Retirement
• HSA – The Ultimate Retirement Account
• How to Access Retirement Funds Early
• Mega Backdoor Roth
• Tax-Loss Harvesting
• Tax-Gain Harvesting
• Front-Loading
• How to Stack Tax Benefits for Even More Savings
• Roth IRA Horse Race
• Retire Even Earlier Without Earning More or Spending Less
• Semiretirement
• Triple Value of Income
• The Incredible Tax Benefits of Real Estate Investing
• The New Tax Law and How It Impacts Your Early Retirement
• Section 199A – The Tax Break of the Century
• Why You Should Form an S Corporation (and When)

Investing

• Personal Capital – The Best Investment Manager
• Safe Withdrawal Rate for Early Retirees
• What’s in My Portfolio (and How I Manage It)
• Cognitive Bias
• Unique Risk – Diversification
• Unique Risk – Minimum Variance Portfolio
• Unique Risk – Market Portfolio
• Specific Identification of Shares
• Lessons from Business School
• Website Investing

FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early)

• How to Optimize Your Journey to Financial Independence
• Valuable Lessons from My First Year of Freedom
• Valuable Lessons from My Second Year of Freedom
• Valuable Lessons from My Third Year of Freedom
• Valuable Lessons from My Fourth Year of Freedom
• Fifth (and Final) Annual Update
• Why I’m Appreciating FI More Than Ever Now
• The Problem with the 4% Rule (and Why You Could Retire Even Sooner)
• Happiness Through Subtraction
• The Power of Quitting
• Hierarchy of Financial Needs (and the Meaning of Life)
• How to Get Your Spouse on Board with Early Retirement
• Free Ivy League Degree
• How to Retire Early with 13 Kids
• How to Retire Early with Kids (14 of Them!)
• Emotions of Financial Independence
• The Benefits of Keeping Your Finances Separate
• FI Laboratory
• FI Spreadsheet
• Post-FIRE Spreadsheet
• Projection Lab
• Financial Independence After Tragedy
• I Applied to be an Astronaut
• The Time Has Finally Come
• Why Everyone Should Have Their Own Business (and How to Guarantee Success)
• The Best and Worst Thing About Financial Independence
• 8 Key Lessons from the Ultralearning Experiment
• Military FIRE – The Tax, Investing, and Travel Benefits of Military Service
• A Better Alternative to Resolutions and Goals

Travel Hacking

• How to Travel Around the World for Less than $1,000
• The Other Portfolio You Need to Focus On
• Adventures Abroad and the Costs of Long-Term Travel

Geographical Arbitrage

• The Perfect Life After Financial Independence
• Geographic Arbitrage and an Early Retirement Preview
• Shortest Path to Financial Independence

Experiments

• Experiments Homepage
• Guinea Pig Experiment
• Online Business Experiment
• Mortgage Payoff Experiment
• Ultralearning Experiment

Financial Independence Podcast Interviews

• Mr. Money Mustache – Early Retirement Made Easy
• JLCollinsNH – The Importance of F-You Money
• Street Smart Finance – The Real American Dream
• Afford Anything – Dive Into Real Estate Investing
• Lacking Ambition – Three Months After Financial Independence
• Retire Early Lifestyle – Perpetual Travel
• Radical Personal Finance – Part One
• Radical Personal Finance – Part Two
• Go Curry Cracker – Ten Years and a Day
• Forever Jobless – Internet Business Investing
• JD Roth – Get Rich Slowly
• Empire Flippers – Buying and Selling Websites
• Millionaire Educator – Financial Independence on Teachers’ Salaries
• 1500 Days – Pulling the Early Retirement Trigger
• Financial Mentor – Hedge Funds, Happiness, & Over 15 Years of Early Retirement
• Frugalwoods – Making Frugality Fun
• Budgets are Sexy – Challenge Everything
• Travel Miles 101 – Travel Hacking and Financial Independence
• Side Hustle Nation – Invest in Yourself
• Mike and Lauren – Medical Tourism, RVs, and Why You Should Question Everything
• JL Collins – The Simple Path to Wealth
• Root of Good – A Million Dollars in 10 Years
• Bigger Pockets – Real Estate, Entrepreneurship, and How to Build an Online Empire
• Camp Mustache – Q&A with Mr. Money Mustache, Afford Anything, & The Military Guide
• The Military Guide – Angel Investing, Market Crashes, & 14 Years of Early Retirement
• Mad Fientist – 1500 Days Podcast Takeover
• Adventuring Along – From $0 to Retired in 5 Years
• PopUp Business School – The Right Way to Start a Business
• Millennial Revolution – Denouncing the Cult of Homeownership
• Sane Fientist – My Wife’s Thoughts on Financial Independence
• Fiery Millennials and Millennial Boss – A Millennial’s Guide to FI
• Coach Carson – The Simple Way to Retire Early with Real Estate
• Our Next Life – Retiring to a Life in the Mountains
• Your Money or Your Life – An Interview with Author Vicki Robin
• Think Save Retire – Selling Everything and Retiring to an RV
• The Happy Philosopher – Semiretirement and Finding Happiness
• Michael Kitces – The 4% Rule and Financial Planning for Early Retirement
• Physician on FIRE – Geographic Arbitrage, Sunk Costs, and Gangsta Rap
• Chris Hutchins – Why You Should “Retire” Before You Hit Your Number
• My Brother – Using the Power of Money to Pursue Your Passion
• Elizabeth Willard Thames – Meet the Frugalwoods
• Money Talks – Live from the UK Chautauqua with Vicki Robin
• Marla Taner – Striving for Happiness After Early Retirement
• Scott Trench – Set for Life
• Chad Carson – Retire Early with Real Estate
• Travis Shakespeare – Playing with FIRE
• James Clear – Atomic Habits and Building a New Identity After Retirement
• Monumental Strength – How to Get Fit (and Actually Enjoy It)
• Tony – Going Back to Work After Early Retirement
• Millennial Money – From Broke to Millionaire in 5 Years
• Cal Newport – Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and the Key to a Happy Retirement
• Ramit Sethi – I Will Teach You to Be Rich
• Scott Young – Ultralearning
• Coronavirus Market Crash – Is This Time Different?
• Morgan Housel – The Psychology of Money
• Early Retirement Extreme – A Systems Approach to Lifestyle Design
• Mad Fientist – Fifth (and Final) Annual Update
• Bogleheads – Life After FIRE
• The Escape Artist – FIRE in the UK
• Aime to Invest – From Bankruptcy to FI in 8 Years
• Mr. Money Mustache – The Best Advice from Mr. Money Mustache
• My Family – Raising Money-Smart Kids
• Ramit Sethi – How to Spend (and Actually Enjoy It)

Elsewhere on the Internet

• Million Mile Secrets – Mad Fientist Interview
• JLCollinsNH – Early Retirement Withdrawal Strategies and Roth Conversion Ladders
• Forbes – Love and Money: How Real Couples Invest for Their Futures
• 1500 Days – Blogs I Dig: The Mad Fientist
• Miles Dividend M.D. – Cliffs Notes: Triple Value
• Stacking Benjamins Podcast – When Will You Find Financial Independence?
• Business Insider – Meet The Normal Guy Who Will Quit His Job And Retire At 32
• 1500 Days – 10 Questions with the Mad Fientist
• Listen Money Matters Podcast – Advanced IRA Strategies with the Mad Fientist
• Listen Money Matters Podcast – IRA Roll Overs, Horse Races and Mega Backdoors with The Mad Fientist
• Frugalwoods – How NOT to Pursue Financial Independence
• Martinis and Your Money Podcast – Financial Independence / Early Retirement
• Aussie Firebug Podcast – Mad Fientist
• Business Insider – A man who retired at 34 shares a spreadsheet that helped him get there
• So Money with Farnoosh Torabi – Mad Fientist
• Martinis and Your Money Podcast – Financial Independence Calculated
• Masters of Money Podcast – Achieving Financial Independence (and Happiness) in Your 30s with Brandon, the Mad Fientist
• ChooseFI Podcast – Mad Fientist an Origin Story
• Afford Anything Podcast – If Money is Not the Motivation, What Is?
• FIRE Drill Podcast – Mad Fientist Talks Life After Early Retirement – Live from FinCon17!
• Financial Freedom Podcast – Mad Fientist

Categories

• Tax Avoidance
• FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early)
• Investing
• Real Estate
• Travel Hacking
• Geographic Arbitrage