Labor Thanksgiving Day edition
Hope you are either enjoying a nice day off or doing some great work 😉
It is still worryingly pleasant for this time of year, but I hear cold weather is coming soon. Hopefully we’ll have some snow this year after the extremely disappointing season last year.
The forum is still on fire this week (heh). That was a personal finance geek joke.
This week’s links
- Being comfortable in my own skin is one reason I enjoy life more the older I get: https://tynan.com/security
- This is the million dollar question, isn’t it? I’m definitely in the ‘wait and see’ camp at the moment…https://www.theguardian.com/…/vaccine-hesitant-anti…
- This twitter thread on weird furusato nozei swag is great
https://twitter.com/stonecoldk…/status/1328565403124191235 - Long article on work: it’s not how much we do but rather the quality of it… https://www.newyorker.com/…/the-rise-and-fall-of…
- FIRE blog in Japan: https://foreverfriday4me.wordpress.com/
- This is just as good second time round: https://www.wired.com/…/six-weeks-100s-miles-hours…/
- The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come? https://www.finumus.com/blog/early-retirement-boring
- Some good ideas in here: https://radreads.co/structure-day/
- The ending was very counterintuitive. I’m not used to thinking in numbers as big as these! https://marginalrevolution.com/…/international-trade-in…
- Interesting article about retiring early. Personally I’m more interested in ‘barista FIRE’ where you have enough that working part-time or doing some freelance work is enough to pay the bills…https://investmentmoats.com/…/covid-stress-test-my…/
- Someone was writing on Twitter about ‘when vaccines start being administered next month’ which seemed… optimistic. https://www.theguardian.com/…/why-the-race-to-find…
What do you think? Anything good in there? #3 and #8 for me I think.
This week’s books
- How I Invest My Money, by Josh Brown. I’m a fan of the blog, so looking forward to this.
- Leadership: In Turbulent Times, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. This looks good, and it was cheap on Kindle 😉
- Happy Money: the Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Money, by Ken Honda. The title alone made this too good to pass up, plus it was only 124 yen on Kindle.
Hi there, thanks for the shout out. Personally, I do think barista FI is something that most people should aim for first. It has enough good utility. And if you feel it is not enough, venture forth and save more