I’m not much of a gambler. I never play the lottery. I’ve never met a bookie. And I can’t stand Las Vegas. The truth is I just don’t like losing money. But I can see the the allure of gambling. As an example, as a college student I went to the Del Mar racetrack in […]
The Miles Game
The best decision I ever made was asking my wife to marry me. At the time I was a poor medical student in New Orleans and she was a beautiful Japanese woman who had recently graduated college in Tokyo. When she said yes I was very happy. But I was also aware that I was […]
WARNING: This Post May Change Your Life….
How much money do you need to retire? Whenever I’ve wondered this before I’ve ended up staring blankly at complicated retirement algorithms which asked me to estimate my cost-of-living in the future, future expenses, health care and education liabilities…. At some point I figured, “Aaahhh, this stuff is unknowable I’ll just max out my 401(k) […]
Dammit Jim, I’m only a doctor, not a….
I’m not a life coach. I’m not a financial planner. I’m not a travel agent. So why write a blog about, of all things, early retirement and traveling for free? I suppose that the answer is, because these subjects are interesting. And one of my personality traits is that when I get interested in something, […]
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