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
- 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
- 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
Use the links below to browse through all the posts in a specific category.
- Tax Avoidance
- FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early)
- Investing
- Real Estate
- Travel Hacking
- Geographic Arbitrage
Future Posts
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