A while back, I came across an article entitled “These are the bad things about early retirement that no one talks about” (sic).

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Two years after I wrote a couple posts about money- The Ghost of Munny Past and The Ghost of Munny Present-an astonishing discovery has prompted me to finally complete the cycle.

But before I get to the meat, how have the past two years gone?

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It’s *that* time again! Time for Orny’s Hexannual Universal Internal Vernal Underwear Interval!

Umm… what?

If you were with me back in 2013, you’d know that I discovered that I have an internal timer which universally goes off every six years in the springtime. This extremely precise biological clock provides me with absolutely vital information ( Read more... )

Over the solstice, I attended an 8-day silent meditation retreat with Bhante Gunaratana at his Bhavana Society retreat center in West Virginia.

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My previous post, The Ghost of Munny Past, covered some of my pre-2015 experiences with money and investing. Here we get caught up to present-day with a few more recent adventures.

At the start of 2015, most of my net worth was tied up in my Back Bay condo, which had originally been purchased with proceeds from the Sapient stock I’d acquired as an ( Read more... )

People really seem to appreciate my candor and openness. That’s been true for years: I was even given a company-wide Core Value Award for epitomizing Sapient’s value of Openness. And readers of this blog have told me that they admire me for my willingness to publicly share my most intimate thoughts.

So in that spirit, let’s talk about my ( Read more... )

So, having just finished William Barrett's "Irrational Man", I was ( Read more... )