Hi RIPologists, Today I’m blogging about my ideal life cycles (the freedom series). Our lives are doomed by cycles: the daily routines, the workweek, the monthly paycheck, the yearly performance review, the summer vacation and so on. Most of today’s cycles are are driven from outside forces like the Sun (days, years), the Moon (months),
Read moreMonth: August 2016
Earthquake
This night an Earthquake 6.2 Richter happened close to Rome, close to where my family lives. My relatives are ok, but there’s going to be several dozens, maybe few hundreds of casualties (EDIT: 24h later casualties are 247 and counting…). Plus, amazing places – like Amatrice, famous for pasta all’Amatriciana – are almost completely
Read moreInvesting Basics
Hi RIP followers, Today we have another post in The Principles series, where I: introduce fundamental philosophical/economical concepts. show my vision/interpretation of them. help you understand the subject from other points of view linking other online resources. describe my own strategies and other thoughts on the same topic. Today’s post is about Investments. I
Read moreBeauty Case
Good morning RIP minions! Today we’ll take a look at the minimalist body care of a FI seeker. I told you about my last visit to Hooliland, didn’t I? Well, let’s take a look at my travel beauty case: What a big bag! It will surely be full of products!
Read moreBig Spender
Hi RIP fellows, This post is about splurges. I’ve previously mentioned that I spend ~60K CHF per year, on track for the unambitious prize of the least frugal FIRE seeker of the world. So let’s show off how I burn my money by the thousands! Actually no, this is not
Read moreBoredom
Hi RIPpers! Few days ago RIP Sr came to visit me in Switzerland for the weekend. It has been a nice August weekend, with very good weather (28 Celsius) and plenty of activities for him: swimming, e-biking, walking, barbecuing with a dozen of friends… he’s no more used to live at
Read moreFU Number
Hi RIP friends! Today we have another post in The Principles series, where I: introduce fundamental philosophical/economical concepts. show my vision/interpretation of them. help you understand the subject from other points of view linking other online resources. describe my own strategies and other thoughts on the same topic. I’ve shown what is Financial Independence, why I
Read moreWithdrawal Rate
Hi readers! Welcome to another post of The Principles series, where I: introduce fundamental philosophical/economical concepts. show my vision/interpretation of them. help you understand the subject from other points of view linking other online resources. describe my own strategies and other thoughts on the same topic. Today I’m going to talk
Read moreFinancial Freedom
Here I’m going to write my first post on a new series on Principles. I’m going to introduce concepts that are widely know to the Personal Finance community that you, my dear reader, may not be very familiar with. I’m going to talk about higher values and my philosophical and ethical approach to personal
Read moreRandom Inspirations from incidentalcomics
Every once in a while I’ll share inspirational post/picture/quotes, just for fun. To inaugurate the category here we have a cool picture from one of my favorites artists: Grant Snider. His blog is populated with these single collage pictures with a central topic and a small story around that, which is
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