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Writing about the year your job becomes optional
Early retirement writing has a bad habit of being either a victory lap or a spreadsheet. This is neither. Mostly it is the questions people get stuck on: healthcare, withdrawal rates, and what to do when the number says no.
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Coast FIRE Is the Number Most People Should Actually Be Chasing
Full FIRE is decades away for most people. Coast FIRE is often five years away, and it buys the thing they actually wanted.
Read →· healthcare
The Health Insurance Question That Quietly Kills Early Retirement Plans
Medicare starts at 65. Everything before that is on you, at a price that depends on income you partly control. Here is how to price it before it prices you.
Read →· withdrawal rate
Stop Arguing About the 4% Rule and Look at What It Actually Assumed
The withdrawal rate debate never resolves because both sides are right about different things. What the original research assumed, and where early retirement breaks it.
Read →Stop reading, start with your own number
NestEgg turns the ideas here into a date that belongs to you, and keeps it current as your life changes.