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Living a FI
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Living a FI is a personal blog at livingafi.com about economics and productivity. Since 2014, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Early-Retirement Update”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for writing on financial independence and early retirement (FIRE), including a later post-mortem on the author's early retirement and its effect on his relationship.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
LivingAFI is a personal-finance blog by ‘Dr. Doom’ offering introspective guides and real-life stories on the highs.
Most-linked posts?
- Early-Retirement Update8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2021-03-18
- Building a vision of life without work (2015)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-13
- /post-fire-relationship-disconnect/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-13
What Hacker News says?
I don't know if this is who you were talking about, but this guy was a big FIRE proponent/blogger who posted last year about his divorce after not updating his blog for several years: https://livingafi.com . It took a few years of early retirement and his coming down with a medical condition, though: "During this time of physical rehabilitation, while I was struggling with the physical issues, my partner finally fig…
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on “I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now”Submitted Early-Retirement Update as a story · 451 points
HN discussionIf you are middle class (~$30k-$70k per annum) you can be wealthy* by focusing your spending on freedom, aka capital investments. I did not understand this was an option before reading the blog of Mr. Money Mustache[0]. Reading that and the Living a FI blog[1] may hopefully be as life-changing to you reading this comment as it was for me. * Wealthy in time to spend with those you love [0] https://www.mrmoneymustache…
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on “The Bitter Regrets of a Useless Chinese Daughter”Submitted Building a vision of life without work (2015) as a story · 419 points
HN discussionAgreed, especially after reading this post https://livingafi.com/post-fire-relationship-disconnect/ It's a dialog he is creating as a summary of many discussions. In his version of the story they both communicate well and seem to hear each other, but not agree on life. Then his takeaway is that she didn't hear him, which was an odd take.
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on “Building a vision of life without work (2015)”Submitted Three Months into Early Retirement as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe author of the blog post followed up with a post-mortem of his FIRE experience several years later: https://livingafi.com/2021/03/17/the-2021-early-retirement-u... The TL;DR is that it was great for the first few years. He started diving deep into his writing passion and notes that he was very happy. Later, his writing hobby slowed and his partner became increasingly dissatisfied with their retirement lifestyle.…
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on “Building a vision of life without work (2015)”Submitted Building a Vision of Life Without Work (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> It is difficult for me to imagine someone who has so little they want to do outside of work that they can't easily find ways to fill up the 8+ hours a day their job takes from them It’s not that simple. I felt the same way before I crossed the FIRE threshold and took some time off (mini-FIRE, I guess). It turns out, most of the things I had been putting off weren’t as time consuming as I thought. I found myself re…
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on “Building a vision of life without work (2015)”Submitted Early Retirement as Financially Independent as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI find the FIRE folks very interesting. If you read the followup post at https://livingafi.com/2021/03/17/the-2021-early-retirement-u... you will find out that this lifestyle isn't for everyone, or for everyone's partners. One thing I think the FIRE folks can miss is the sense of worth, improvement in personal power and confidence that comes from struggling. Struggling could be making things, building a business, le…
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on “Building a vision of life without work (2015)”Submitted Six years into Lean-FIRE: An update as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis follow up is way more compelling because it deals with the reality. I'm jealous of the authors communication skills and their partner's: there are some very hard statements in there about feeling worthless and falling behind because of no job. I wonder of those words were spoken calmly, or shouted through tears. Here are their discussions: https://livingafi.com/post-fire-relationship-disconnect/ TL;DR: He has t…
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on “Building a vision of life without work (2015)”Submitted Early-Retirement Update as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis person also posted an amazing, unvarnished update recently (about 5-6 years later): https://livingafi.com/2021/03/17/the-2021-early-retirement-u...
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on “Building a vision of life without work (2015)”Submitted The Job Experience: Tech Support, Year #1 (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCongrats and greetings to Munich. I know and helped a few people in similar situations. Here your rough priorities: 1. Invest most of the cash in a conservative way, so it lasts. That means stocks and some bonds to ride out downturns. You will want to work with a fee-only adviser for this to consider everything from taxes to future spouses to inheritance. 2. Consider your interests and learn about the psychological…
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on “Ask HN: 27, accidentally became wealthy, lost drive. What should I do?”Submitted Year 12: Hell, the Startup Job Experience as a story · 1 points
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