What is your true hourly wage?

What is your true hourly wage? Think you know? It might be different than you think. Your hourly wage or your salary can be deceiving....

The Opportunity Cost of Owning a Car

In life, we face a handful of important decisions that can shape our lives for decades to come. Car ownership is one of those decisions we m

The Five Transitions to Financial Independence: Money Tree Podcast Interview

iTunes Spotifiy The Five Transitions to Financial Independence Guest post by Shane Dillon, Author of The Franklin Fi book...

The Personal Profit & Loss Statement

The Personal Profit and Loss Statement tracks one’s income and expenses to find whether the person is making a profit or a loss each...

Outside Magazine Interview

I caught up with Shane Dillon Gidcumb, a former winery executive and author of 'The Franklin Fi' book series who up and quit his job one...

The Path to Semi-Retirement

Semi-retirement is about breaking away from the rat race to do what you love. It is leaving behind the nine to five world of mindless...

YOU ARE A HUMAN CORPORATION

Your value is based on the skill set that makes your employer more profitable. You are a walking collection of assets and the more...

The Sleep Routine and Intermittent Fasting

Why are we told to eat three meals a day? Why are we told to get at least eight hours of sleep each night? Why are we told to wash our...

The Opportunity Cost of a Beer Gut

Behold! The beer gut. To some, it is an art form. It takes hours and weeks and years of laborious drinking to achieve optimal roundness...

Bicycle Across the Country

My first attempt at long-distance bicycle touring was cycling across the USA from Jacksonville, Florida to San Francisco. Coast to...

The Franklin Fi | A Personal Finance Adventure for Next Generation Investors

The Franklin Fi BLOG is written by author Shane Dillon from his present-day perspective. The blog is an accumulation of personal finance lessons that Shane has learned over the last twenty years. Whereas The Franklin Fi book starts from day one of the journey, Shane’s blog picks up twenty years later and explores the ideas of his daily life living abroad in Europe as a writer.