Earlier this month, I gave a presentation at CampFI – Midwest that I thought might be worth sharing here in a written format. I titled the talk “Create Your Own FI” and the idea was one that I’ve been thinking about for a while – that financial independence (FI) isn’t something that we necessarily have […]
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Dollar-Cost Averaging By Necessity
There’s an interesting thing that happens when you stop paying attention to what the market is doing . . . nothing. I gave up on following market news a while ago because, frankly, it made me way too angry. Every article would always be the same – some guy predicting a big market crash for […]
August 2019 Side Hustle Report – $3,356.27
Whew! I just got back from a week at FinCon, so I am absolutely exhausted. Still, this blog doesn’t sleep, so I’m back today with another Financial Panther Side Hustle Report! If you’re a new reader, the basic gist is that each month, I document exactly what I made side hustling using various sharing economy […]
Make Your Job Fit Around Your Life
One of the things I’ve been thinking about recently is how quitting my job has really changed the way I think about work, and specifically, how I think about the way work fits in with my life. Take my current schedule as an example. Last week, my wife and I went on a week-long trip […]
The Best Personal Finance Books
I read a lot of books and over the years I’ve compiled a decent reading list of what I think are the best personal finance books. When you think about it, books are an amazing tool with a really high return on investment. You can usually get them for free at the library, so they […]
Introducing PersonalFinanceBlogs.com – A New Content Curation Site
Sometime not too long ago, Rockstar Finance, one of my favorite personal finance websites, went dormant. This was a pretty big bummer because of how important the site was not only to myself but to the entire personal finance community as well. The premise behind Rockstar Finance was pretty simple. Each day, they featured three […]
July 2019 Side Hustle Report – $3,872.60
Welcome back to another edition of the Financial Panther Side Hustle Report. For those of you that are new here, each month, I document exactly what I made using different sharing economy and gig economy apps. In the past, these reports were mainly about showing what I made side hustling while working a full-time job. […]
Electric Micromobility – This Is The Way To Move Around A City
One of the things that really excites me about the future of cities and transportation is the rise of micromobility and specifically, this wave of electric micromobility that we’ve been seeing in urban areas. I’ve been a fan of micromobility even before I knew that there was a term for it. Years ago, I wrote […]
The Relative Value of Money
There’s a concept that I’ve been thinking about over the past couple of years, especially as I’ve made this transition from a full-time, professional, real job, to a quasi-fake job as a blogger and gig economy worker. It has to do with a concept you could call the relative value of money. When I think […]
A Better Emergency Fund Strategy
One of the common questions I see in the financial independence community is this: What is the best way to handle your emergency fund? It seems like this question has come up even more with the recent launch of high-yield savings accounts from fintech companies like Betterment and Wealthfront, not to mention all of the […]
