As Mr. Fate prepares to relocate to the Washington countryside, he reflects back on 25 years of surviving life in the stucco killing fields of Southern California. WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED & HOW DID I GET HERE? As I sit here writing this with only a few weeks left living here in Southern California, my …
2019 was my first full year of early retirement and I was truly looking forward to all of the new, exciting adventures, experiencing life from the vantage of a financially free individual, and finally being able to eschew mundanity and embrace magic. What I actually got was a rather ugly, gruesome, soul-rending kick in the …
FIRE Aethernaut, Mr. Fate, ventures deep into the nocturnal dreamlands to explore and reveal the true nightmares of early retirement!
FIRE Aethernaut, Mr. Fate, documents the soaring highs and epic lows of the endeavor to reunite his punk band after a 25-year hiatus for one last tour.
Loaded Like a Freight Train! Mr. Fate takes pause to both acknowledge and celebrate all of the musical and literary references after nearly 8 months of blogging. While the time has past swiftly (as it always does), since February 12, 2019 when I was first interviewed about the launch of Fates On Fire, I will …
LOADED LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN: CELEBRATING FATES ON FIRE’S REFERENCES (THUS FAR)
Mr. Fate examines the oft overlooked notion of psychological arbitrage, specifically as a component of geographic arbitrage, in the context of early retirement. I currently happen to live in the the 2nd largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States. As of 2019, Southern California is home to over 24,122,237 residents and continues to grow …
SILENCE IS SEXY – A CASE FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL ARBITRAGE IN EARLY RETIREMENT
I AM OTHER PEOPLE Over the course of my lifetime, I have learned many important things. One of which, in my experience, is that most folks truly believe that bad things only happen to other people. The second is that I am other people. Don’t get me wrong here, I’ve lead a fairly charmed life …
FIRE FUBAR – REALITY & RISK TOLERANCE IN EARLY RETIREMENT PLANNING
Mr. Fate reveals his experiment to start a social enterprise as a side hustle to save lives. On October 3, 2016 my best friend died. Our paths crossed about seven years earlier and, from the moment we first met, we quickly became extremely close to the point of being inseparable. We were together pretty much …