🔥 Early Retirement

A year ago I took a career break after 28 years of web development. My goal was to study a variety of topics, and pursue hobbies like game development and technical writing. Runway 🛫 To accomplish this, my aim was to live a very frugal lifestyle, to stretch out my savings – some call this Lean FIRE. Despite the chaos abroad and some at home (e.g. furnace repairs), my portfolio did rather well. In fact, I ended up slightly ahead.