Financial Independence
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,” […]
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 […]
Update: It’s come to my attention that the team at Copilot are ever the strategists and are working on an integration to import data from Mint in light of the news that Intuit is shuttering the platform. What did I tell you? User-friendly kings & queens. I should disclose upfront that I used to work […]
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 […]