Master Plan Part Trois
RetireJapan Remastered A few years ago I published a master plan for RetireJapan. Then in 2021 I published Part Deux. After all the crazy developments in the last couple of years, I think it’s time for another update 🙂 The original plan was as follows: Step 1: share information on the site/blogStep 2: run a forum so people can […]
RetireJapan Guide to NISA 2022
The New Edition is Out I finished the 2022 edition of the RetireJapan Guide to NISA on Sunday, and my book designer sent me back the final files today. I’m really proud of this version, it is 50% longer than the previous edition and contains a lot of updated content about Tsumitate NISA, the New […]
Books of the Year 2021
A new annual post Someone suggested I do a book roundup, and I thought that was a great idea. I had a quick look through my bookshelf and Kindle reading library, and chose the books that I remember most from this year. Two of them are rereads, four are novels (I initially wrote three here, […]
Guest Post: Book Review
Investment as a Liberal Education: How to Join the Business Elite I’m very pleased to have a guest post today from a new contributor, Richard Brash. He’s a seminary professor in Nagoya, and has written the book Smart Serendipity: The Essential Mindset Shift for Time-Rich Living. Take it away, Richard! It’s not often that I […]
Derek Sivers Book Giveaway
It’s freebie time I’m a big fan of Derek Sivers. I think I first encountered him on TED. Then I read Anything You Want. I’ve been following his projects for a while now too. He inspired my /now page. Last year he started publishing books with an interesting pricing model: you pay for the initial […]
Book Review: Die With Zero
This mediocre book is the best thing I have read for a while There is a new pandemic spreading across the world. Not Covid-21 thankfully, but rather every single personal finance blog is reviewing Die With Zero by Bill Perkins. The author is a somewhat unrelateable natural gas trader/hedge fund manager/movie producer/high stakes poker player […]
How to invest
Every situation is different I tend to live in the future, perhaps too much so. I am constantly making plans and thinking about different options. My financial and professional situations seem to be heading for some changes, so I have been poring over spreadsheets for the last couple of weeks (to be honest, at least […]
Author Profile: Ken Seeroi
Japanese Rule of Something I’ve been enjoying Ken Seeroi’s blog, Japanese Rule of 7, for a while now. It’s funny, doesn’t take itself too seriously, but from time to time it comes up with some really sharp observations about life in Japan. Well, not my life in Japan, because I tend to go home and […]
Guest Post: Saku’s Random Book Club
Books and entrepreneurship? Pushing all my buttons. Another guest post for you today -what is this? Christmas already? I love books and reading, am interested in random business ideas and making money, and have been a fan of Patrick’s newsletter for a while. When I saw his new subscription service idea I thought it would […]