The Great Melbourne Lockdown is nearly over. All going to plan we'll be able to leave the city in 5 more days, making it a total of 123 lockdown days. Considering that I was planning to cycle across the world this year it might sound like spending 4 months trapped in a little house in … Continue reading Moneylounge v2
Starting some sort of Tech Startup isn't for everyone and its inherent financial uncertainty goes against the doctrine of a traditional FIRE strategy. However, it's a path that many tech entrepreneurs have done fantastically well from and is something that anyone in Tech should at least consider. Why do this? Anyone can start a business. … Continue reading TechFI: The Tech Startup
Financial Independence is a long term play that needs to consider macro trends affecting the world now and in the future. Two such trends that I've recently become very interested in are Global Warming and Automation. Whilst I can't predict what difference these trends will have on an FI portfolio I do note some behavioral … Continue reading Global Warming & Automation
Contracting is my favored path to Tech Financial Independence. I'll explain why I like it so much by sharing some stories of how I've used it and how I've seen others use contracting to get ahead. In a previous post I shared how permanent work, contracting and startups can all be valid paths to Financial … Continue reading TechFI: Contracting
Measuring my financial wellbeing lead me to create my own Mac App that gave me the skills to start iOS development which led to me starting Touchtech and running a business. Now it's time to create v2. I've been interested in Financial Independence since I was 21 and in the early days, I used MS … Continue reading MoneyLounge
A month ago I meet a psychologist whilst I was bike touring around New Zealand. He was from Switzerland. He was traveling around New Zealand with his wife. She was a consultant from Ernst & Young in Geneva and had taken a sabbatical from work to join him for 3 months down under. We got … Continue reading The danger of the sabbatical
I've been investing in various financial instruments since I was in my early 20s. The stock market, shares in companies I've worked for, term deposits, shares in companies I've worked for and startups have all been investments I've made. I've gradually got better at it. Most of my early forays into the share market made … Continue reading Don’t sell
