We don’t track our spending. That means we don’t budget. I hate paperwork; it’s just another item to procrastinate on, right up there with the laundry. So, I haven’t made a budget. I tell myself I will do it. Some day. Soon… In the world of the FIRE crowd (Financial…

Humans are funny creatures. We crave the binary. We want everything to be “on” or “off,” “black” or “white.” We want to ignore the middle state or the third option (my apologies to quantum physics). For me, that black-and-white state is the Holy Grail. If a decision is binary, it…

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.” That is the best Mike Tyson quote there is, and last night, it felt like I took a heavy one right to the jaw. My plan—and let me reiterate, it was my plan—was for me to retire at 54…

When I was a smaller cog in the corporate machine, I assumed the people in the C-suite were special. I viewed VPs as strategic titans—people with a rare talent, a “secret sauce,” and the keys to the kingdom. To my younger self, they could do no wrong. Early in my…