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3 Ways to Lower Your Tax Bill in 2025 (and How to Navigate Those Weird Rollover IRA Forms)

Financial Independence, Investing & Taxes

As my standard legalese: I am not a licensed tax professional, and this is not tax advice. Please consult your friendly neighborhood CPA and do your due diligence. This is intended to be a starting point for your #TaxSzn research. As I was reminded repeatedly by TurboTax’s 2023 ad campaign called “Don’t Do Your Taxes,” […]

Forged in the FI/RE

Financial Independence, Money Psychology

I read an essay the other day from a guy who really, really hates the Financial Independence/Retire Early (FI/RE) movement. Jared, who writes the We’re Gonna Get Those Bastards newsletter, did not mince words: “This is the f***ing stupidest thing I have ever heard of in my life.” As a personal finance writer and semi-loyal […]

Copilot Review: A Budgeting App that Finally Gets it Right? [Updated for 2026]

Financial Independence, Spending & Saving

Before I was a person with way too many opinions about personal finance, I worked professionally in user experience strategy, design, and writing—a field that I’ve joked saw me ascend the ranks to Associate Manager of Turning That One Button Blue So More People Would Click It. Why am I telling you this? Because when […]

How to Contribute Thousands of Extra Roth Dollars Each Year: The Mega Backdoor Roth IRA [2025]

Financial Independence, Investing & Taxes

A Visual Way to Understand Your Finances: Money Mapping [2025]

Financial Independence, Spending & Saving

I love financial visualizations. I feel like my brain doesn’t intuitively make sense of numbers—but when I see everything represented visually, it resonates. (Jump cut to me sitting on a bench outside my college calculus class on the phone with my dad, in tears.) A few years ago, I did an exercise I lovingly called […]