Binge Reading

Hi RIP readers,

This page is here to list all my blog content, and I commit to keep it up to date.

Blocks are sorted by my dictatorial concept of relevance, while posts within a block are sorted by chronological order. Plus, at the bottom of this page you’ll find a list of all posts in chronological order. Yeah, a total mess!

That’s the right page to start for binge readers.

Enjoy!

My Story

Page: Financial and Professional Story

• My Financial Story – Chapter 1 – Education and School
• My Financial Story – Chapter 2 – High School and Maturity
• My Financial Story – Chapter 3 – University
• My Financial Story – Chapter 4 – Dream Job Number 1: Research in Robotics
• My Financial Story – Chapter 5 – Dream Job Number 2: Videogame Development
• My Financial Story – Chapter 6 – Dream Job Number 3: Freelance
• My Financial Story – Chapter 7 – Dream Job Number 4: Hooli
• My Financial Story – Chapter 8 – Dream Jobs Left
• My Story Chapter 9a – Hooli: Timeline and Financials (July 2020)
• My Story Chapter 9b – Hooli: Dark side of a Dream job (July 2020)
• My Story Chapter 9c – Hooli: Inevitable Corporate BS (August 2020)

My Finances

• Monthly logo change (June 2016)
• My Net Worth (July 2016)
• July 2016 Financial Update
• August 2016 Financial Update – “how to save more than 80% of your take home pay” edition
• NW Spreadsheet improved – plus a taste of my current investment strategy (September 2016)
• September 2016 Financial Update – “Shame on us” edition
• October 2016 Financial Update – Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita… (halfway done!)
• November 2016 Financial Update – I’m Billionaire!
• December 2016 Financial Update
• January 2017 Financial Update
• February 2017 Financial Update
• March 2017 Financial Update – Marriage edition
• April 2017 Financial Update – Quaranta
• May-June-July 2017 Financial Update – Yet Another Wedding
• My Net Worth Split by Currencies (August 2017)
• August-September 2017 Financial Update
• 2017 Q4 (Oct-Nov-Dec) Financial Update
• 2018 Q1 (Jan-Feb-Mar) Financial Update
• April 2018 Financial Update – When 2 become 3 🙂
• May 2018 Financial Update – The Italian Joke
• June 2018 Financial Update – Million Impossible
• July 2018 Financial Update – Too good to be true
• Au,gu,st 2018 Financial Update
• September 2018 Financial Update
• Ultra Quick Short Mid October 2018 Financial Update
• October 2018 Financial Update (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
• November 2018 Financial Update
• December 2018 Monthly update
• January 2019 (Financial Update, Personal Update)
• March (and February) 2019 (Financial Update, Personal Update)
• April 2019 (Financial Update, Personal Update)
• May 2019 Financial Update
• June 2019 Update – MillionEUR!
• 2019 Q3 (July-Aug-Sept) Financial Update – Shame on us!
• 2019 Q4 (October-November-December) Update – Back to Work
• 2020 Q1 Update – The End of the World
• April 2020 Update, and more
• Quick 2020 Q2 Financial Update
• 2020 Q3 Financial Update
• 2020 Q4 Financial Update Part 1: Financials
• 2020 Q4 Financial Update Part 2: Investments Analysis, Actions, and Plans
• 2020 Q4 Financial Update Part 2-BIS: Q&A on Part 2
• 2020 Q4 Financial Update Part 2-TER: Investor’s Anxiety and Stocks vs Bonds with Julianek
• 2020 Q4 Financial Update Part 3: Personal and Blog update
• 2021 Q1 Personal and Financial Update
• 2021 Q2 Financial VIDEO Update
• 2021 Q3 Financial VIDEO Update

Earning More

• What did I learn from almost 100 Tech Interviews at Google? (February 2021)
• How to get a chance of being interviewed at Google (February 2021)

Spreadsheets

• How I track my finances using spreadsheets Part 1: Why and What (September 2020)
• How I track my finances using spreadsheets Part 2: Structure (September 2020)
• How I track my finances using spreadsheets Part 3: Net Worth (September 2020)
• How I track my finances using spreadsheets Part 4: Cash Flow (September 2020)
• How I track my finances using spreadsheets Part 5: FIRE Metrics (September 2020)
• How I track my finances using spreadsheets Part 6: Historical Income and Expenses, and Time to Broke (June 2021)

Coronavirus

• Coronavirus Journal Day 9 (February 2020)
• Coronavirus Journal Day 24 – how am I HODLing up? (March 2020)
• Coronavirus Journal Day 29 – A new hope (March 2020)
• Coronavirus Journal Day 38 – The Dance and the Hammer (March 2020)

Investing

• Investing Basics (August 2016)
• Financial Investments (September 2016)
• Funds Investing (September 2016)
• Fees and Taxes (September 2016)
• Stock Price and Market Model (September 2016)
• Investor Profile and Lifelong Investing Strategy (September 2016)
• Market timing and US election (October 2016)
• My Investor Policy Statement (January 2017)
• ETF 101 (May 2017)
• The hardest part about your asset allocation strategy is to stick with it (October 2017)
• Interactive Brokers 101 (March 2018)
• I will invest when the market drops (April 2018)
• Spring cleaning my investments (April 2018)
• Index Investing Economy (July 2018)
• Financial Quickie: what’s the minimum amount that makes sense to start investing on Interactive Brokers? (August 2018)
• First Failure as Unofficial Financial Coach (October 2018)
• On John Bogle and index investing (January 2019)
• That time when I made an ETF available on ICTAX (February 2019)
• ETF List 2019 Part 1: USA (March 2019)
• ETF List 2019 Part 2: World (March 2019)
• Are Index Funds Unsafe? (August 2019)
• I did something I’m not proud of… (December 2019)
• Investing-paralysis temporary resolution (December 2019)
• Rip and Ben (March 2020)
• P2P Lending – The good, the bad, and the ugly (March 2020)
• First shot of stock picking vaccine, i.e. my recent experience with Individual Stocks (June 2020)
• Interactive Brokers: thanks Brexit, screw you! (September 2020)
• The Problem with small, EU Domiciled ETFs (October 2020)
• What if you invested before the DotCom Bubble exploded? Ask Rolf! (January 2021)
• GameStop Short Squeeze for dummies (January 2021)
• My experimentations with Covered Calls Part 1: Why and What (March 2021)

Cryptos

• My take on Cryptocurrencies – Part 1: The Ugly (January 2018)
• My take on Cryptocurrencies – Part 2: The Bad (March 2021)

Italia

• First Italian FI Blogger meeting! (October 2016)
• Quick post for those who read my mashable interview today (October 2019)
• Breaking Italy’s Wallet (March 2020)
• The Italian Man Who went to Malta (June 2020)
• Fake Gurus and Contrepreneurs (July 2020)

The Principles

• Financial Freedom (August 2016)
• Withdrawal Rate (August 2016)
• FU Number (August 2016)
• How to Fix your Financial Problems (January 2017)
• Fire FAQ (March 2018)

Community

• I have a dream (July 2016)
• Financial Independence Week Europe (FIWE) 2018 Report – RIP’s trip in Romania (July 2018)
• I have a Dream: RIP Coworking! (November 2020)
• I will interview Ben Felix on Tuesday February 28th! (February 2023)
• My Interview with Ben Felix (March 2023)
• I’m on Rational Reminder Podcast 257! (June 2023)

Coaching

• I’m offering free career and financial education coaching in Q1 2020! (November 2019)
• Coaching follow up: I have a problem now! (November 2019)
• Coaching – who asked for my help? (November 2019)
• Coaching – And the Winner is… (November 2019)
• Coaching Q1 2020 – How did it go? (April 2020)
• Financial Education Service Official Launch (April 2021)

Freedom

• Earthquake (August 2016)
• Cycles (August 2016)
• Traveling (September 2016)
• Appian Way and a taste of FI Life: Freedom doesn’t imply Happiness (October 2016)
• A Taste of FI: asked to slow down to a 80% position at Hooli (October 2016)
• 80% (December 2016)
• Mexico, before the wall (December 2016)
• No, that was not my last summer of vacation! (February 2017)
• Back to Plato’s Cave (August 2018)
• What Would You Do If You Got Given €1 Million? (October 2018)
• Identity revealed, and first service launched! (February 2021)
• It’s a mess! (May 2021)
• I’m not dead (yet) – part 1 (December 2022)

Quitting

• Leaving the Cushy Job (February 2020)
• StupidiFI (February 2020)
• Overwhelmed (April 2020)

Midlife Crisis

• Midlife Crisis outsourced: a dinner with KM-Finanzen (September 2019)
• Midlife Crisis outsourced: a chat with SuperBoss (September 2019)
• Midlife Crisis crowdsourced: chats with Andrey, Faustino, Mr VCF and Mr GFY (September 2019)
• Midlife Crisis insourced: season finale – a chat with myself (September 2019)

Switzerland

• Swiss Pension System a.k.a. Pillars for dummies and immigrants (November 2016)
• Unemployment in Switzerland (November 2016)
• Lump Sum Tax on Pillar 2 & 3 – Kapitalauszahlungssteuer (November 2016)
• Defined benefits Lump Sum Value (August 2018)
• Everybody in Switzerland can retire in 10 years! (August 2018)
• Trolling my first “Financial Advisor” 1/3 (December 2020)
• Trolling my first “Financial Advisor” 2/3 – Structured Notes (December 2020)
• Trolling my first “Financial Advisor” Part 3 of 3 – Insurance Policy Pillar 3AB (December 2020)
• I moved our Pillar 3A accounts to Finpension (December 2020)
• Patti Chiari – The Full Story (May 2021)

Self Improvement

• Boredom (August 2016)
• Early to bed and early to rise…  (January 2017)
• Tools Of Titans book review part 0 – Habits (February 2017)
• Deep Work (May 2018)
• Dishwasher (April 2019)
• The Almanack of Paul Graham (March 2021)

Spending / Frugality

• Big Spender (August 2016)
• Beauty Case (August 2016)
• Gifts Ideas: ideas! (December 2016)
• Are we spendypants? RIP vs The Average Swiss (July 2018)
• Why I don’t like US Tipping rules (January 2019)

Debts

• My Credit Score (October 2016)

Blogging

• 10 Questions and a Pizza Place with… myself! (October 2016)
• It didn’t work but it was fun, i.e. facebooks sucks (October 2016)
• Guest Post on WhatLifeCouldBe (January 2017)
• A book about Financial Independence (in German) featuring… me! (February 2017)
• On blogging, writing, anonymity and the future of retireinprogress (July 2018)
• Financial Independence Europe Podcast featuring… me 🙂 (August 2018)
• Who the hell is Rico Pelli? (August 2018)
• Rip is taking a blogging break (December 2018)
• My Millionaire interview on ESI Money (December 2018)
• My Financial Black Belt Interview on Millionaire Dojo (April 2019)
• Blog redesign WIP, and a project announcement (June 2020)
• RIPFLIX (March 2021)

Early Retirement

• Money is not the problem: meet Joe (February 2018)
• Playing with FIRE (May 2018)
• What if I Retire at 65? (August 2018)
• European Early Retirement Guide – a Call to Action (October 2018)
• Will I be comfortable withdrawing from principal in Early Retirement? (January 2019)
• Lifestyle inflation and Early Retirement: Nat is Wrong (September 2020)
• One Dollar Coast FIRE and Generational Wealth (June 2021)

Dark FIRE

• FIRE is DEAD (May 2020)
• FIRE is DEAD – Appendix (May 2020)
• FIRE Spectrum (May 2020)

Reader Case Study

• Reader Case Study: Mr ATM – Working in Switzerland, want to Retire Abroad in 10 years (October 2018)

Fintainment

• SILLY interview 1: with MustachianPost (March 2019)
• Survival of the Fittest (April 2020)

Inspirations

• Random Inspirations from incidentalcomics (August 2016)
• Eleven gems on the net #1 (September 2016)
• Eleven gems on the net #2 (September 2016)
• Eleven gems on the net #3 (October 2016)
• Eleven Gems on the Net #4 – White Mirror (November 2016)
• A Tale of a small Failure and a big Success (January 2017)
• CuriosiTips #1 (July 2019)

Learning Journal

• Weekly Learning Journal 1 (17/08/2020)
• Weekly Learning Journal 2 (24/08/2020)
• Weekly Learning Journal 3 (31/08/2020)
• (Bi)Weekly Learning Journal 4 (14/09/2020)
• (Bi)Weekly Learning Journal 5 (28/09/2020)
• (Bi)Weekly Learning Journal 6 (12/10/2020)
• (Bi)Weekly Learning Journal 7 (26/10/2020)
• (Bi)Weekly Learning Journal 8 (9/11/2020)
• (Bi)Weekly Learning Journal 9 (23/11/2020)
• (Bi)Weekly Learning Journal 10 (7/12/2020)
• Monthly Learning Journal 11 (4/1/2021)
• Monthly Learning Journal 12 (1/2/2021)
• Monthly Learning Journal 13 (1/3/2021)
• Monthly Learning Journal 14 (5/4/2021)
• Monthly Learning Journal 15 (3/5/2021)
• Monthly Learning Journal 16 (7/6/2021)
• Monthly Learning Journal 17 (5/7/2021)

First post 🙂

• Hello World (June 18th 2016)

---

Alternatively, here are all posts in chronological order 🙂

Chronological Order