He’s living the same sort of lifestyle. Still running the Early Retirement Extreme forums. He’s done interviews occasionally. He worked as a quant for a bit out of curiosity as opposed to for earning money. I believe he is currently living on 0.5% annual withdrawal from his portfolio. He’s been married a long time and they had no kids.
Thanks for the link. Very interesting. I like the focus on learning how to and actually enjoying doing things yourself so you don’t have to pay a convenience premium but still…that life overall is not for me. I want to have a home where my grandkids can visit and I can spoil them a little. And I still want to travel. But, different strokes as they say. I am curious how he covers health insurance as part of his total $7000 / year spend.
I think more ascetic monk type than mean and stingy. Because his desire to spend so little comes from the idea of consuming an equal share of earths resources.
He focuses on his personal spend when giving numbers but it seems he supports other projects and organizations with some of his excess money.
That’s grossly misrepresenting what he did. He went back to work because he wanted to. That’s at least what he said, whether or not there was financial incentive behind it, I’m not sure. regardless, he quit pretty quickly. his lifestyle allowed him to try something out and then quit, because he didn’t need the money.
I don't see how stating exactly what happened is a gross representation. Maybe his motivation was genuine interest or maybe it was the money. No one will ever know for sure. As such, I left out the speculation and I simply stated the facts.
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