Category Work
Work Bitch
First published February 2019, Updated December 2022 There’s an unwritten rule that stuff about money has to be written so blandly that none of the children in the sandpit can possibly get offended. This is a widely followed convention in personal finance that we will NOT be following today. So, if you are a cry-baby […]
Geographic arbitrage and the beauty of having a Plan B
I once helped cure the financial anxiety of a French fund manager. He was stressed out by his job (he was worried – with some justification – that the robots were coming for him) and his London lifestyle. Perhaps you too would like to feel less anxious (and get better with money)? If so, please continue and I […]
How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)
Today we have some solid gold from Naval Ravikant’s twitter feed. For those of you that have not come across Naval, he’s a remarkable individual. He started off as a penniless Indian immigrant and ended up a wealthy American tech entrepreneur / investor in San Francisco. He’s the founder of AngelList and invested at an […]
Power is the ability to control your own life
This is the story of Ralph, taken from the book Why Men Are The Way They Are by Warren Farrell. Ralph’s story may not be normal – he was an unusually high earning lawyer – but it is representative. You can think of this as a parable about the trap of becoming overly focussed on status and […]
Earning more is not cheating
Do you Remember Jason and Julie? They were the couple with the campervan who got to FI aged 43 and whose story I featured in Our Gap Year For Grown Ups. When the Daily Mail wrote about them in an article earlier this year, a troll-party kicked off in the comments section. A common theme was: […]
The Escape Artist 