I briefly socialized pieces of this idea last year when I was at Econome back in 2025. People understood the direction, but I hadn’t fully hashed it out yet. I hadn’t modeled it. I hadn’t pressure-tested it. I was recovering from a winter season in life; going through the seasons...

The Pivot That Changed the Meaning of “FIRE” At first, FIRE felt like a math problem: save hard, invest consistently, minimize taxes, hit a number, and walk away. It was clean, logical, and strangely comforting because the rules were simple enough to repeat. But after the mini-retirements and the life...