The Monday Read

At Work in the Middle of Golden Week Edition

Looking at data from the last few years of sending out this newsletter and running the forum, it seems most of our readers only log on while they are at work.

Seems legit, for a site that aims to help people retire 😉

So if you are reading this today I guess you are at work like me. My commiserations.

This week’s photo

I took this on the way to work. These flowers are valiantly growing in a storm drain.

Actually walked past it at first, then my brain caught up and I went back for the picture.

Reminds me of this Travis song too.

The Forum

The Forum is doing well (20,720 posts so far). Here are the latest active threads:

This week’s books

Still on the Reacher train, but we are nearing the destination. Finished Night School and started The Midnight Line.

Also started rereading The Happy Teacher Habits.

I also bought The Complete Book of the New Sun, on a recommendation from Neil Gaiman. Looking forward to getting into it post Reacher.

  1. Inflation is starting to bite: Price hikes for 6,100 food & beverage items in Japan
  2. I can’t see this happening anytime soon: Japan’s top COVID official hints at relaxation of mask recommendation
  3. This article/substack about walking is great (thanks to Craig Mod for the intro): How to Walk (12 miles a day)
  4. Might be time to revisit Shikoku: What Lies Beyond the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage Route
  5. Save more than you need, borrow less than you can: Never Saw It Coming
  6. Speaking of Craig Mod: A Long Walk in a Fading Corner of Japan
  7. We gave away some copies of this on the site last year. Much recommended: How to Live by Derek Sivers
  8. I am certainly not rich, but I might just be wealthy: The Rich And The Wealthy
  9. Ooops. Only wage growth can fix this. Japan Finally Gets Inflation—but the Wrong Kind
  10. Did not know that about YouTube: Welcome, ghosts
  11. I like the last one: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
  12. This kind of nickel and dimeing is the least effective way to look at spending IMO: Magazine offers advice to reduce the sting of surging inflation
  13. Puts Covid into perspective: Ten Million a Year
  14. I don’t imagine I will ever do a location-based job again: Think Bigger About Remote Work
  15. Still find a lot to like about value investing, but I’m an indexer now: The Values of Value Investing
  16. Something for our US friends for a change (video): Tax Talk 2021 #1 with Michael Stanczak, CPA. US expats in Japan and around the world tax issues
  17. Great Twitter thread: How to avoid an unhappy existence

What do you think? Anything interesting in there?

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