A few days ago I was talking about financial independence with a good friend of mine. He was curious and asked me many questions about why it is important and how to achieve it. Eventually, though, he told me “everything you are saying assumes that I have money to invest”. Continue Reading
This is how I save and invest for financial independence
In this post, I want to tell you how you can tactically set up your accounts to save and invest for financial independence while balancing other life needs. I came to learn this myself because my wife and I don’t share the same financial independence goals, and we have different Continue Reading
3 ways to diversify your portfolio
All the investments that we own constitute our investment portfolios. The portfolio is the foundation of our Financial Independence because it provides the income to sustain our lives in the future. So we need to preserve it and support its growth in value through diversification. In this post, we discuss Continue Reading
My hymn to frugality: what you own, will own you
When I started making some decent money in my first grown-up job in Milan, Italy, I decided that it was finally time to buy something that I had longed for a long time. A nice bicycle. I have always been conscious about getting a good deal for my money. So I Continue Reading
Do we really need another Financial Independence Retire Early website?
If you landed on this peripheral blog on the web, I am sure that you stumbled here after hopping on the great writings of other FIRE titans. Well, I have read those too and learned a lot from them. My favorites: Mr. Money Mustache, Rob Berger, JL Collins, Millennial Revolution, Continue Reading
About me and my Financial Independence plan
Hi there, this is me, Dario – aka Prometheus – your FIRE titan! In Greek mythology, Prometheus is the Titan who stole fire from the Gods to share it with humanity. I want to share another kind of FIRE with you 🙂 Financial Independence Retire Early FIRE is the acronym Continue Reading