All economies are cyclical. But in recent years the UK economy has been like a baroque town clock – one where a cuckoo pops out every 60 minutes, a peasant girl emerges every four hours to chase the geese, and at midnight the clock face spins wildly around before ending up exactly as it started. .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{ -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent); mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent); } This article can be read by selected […]

Part of the American dream is to climb the property ladder and live in the nicest neighborhood possible. We spend more than half our lives at home, so we want a neighborhood that offers as much peace, quiet, safety, and convenience as our budget allows. As an old man with young kids, long gone are the days […] The post The Downside Of Living In A Nice Neighborhood Nobody Warns You About appeared first on Financial Samurai.

  Money can be stressful. Debt, bills, unexpected expenses, and saving for the future can keep you thinking about money all day. And when things aren’t going the way you want financially, it’s easy to get stuck focusing on everything that’s wrong. That’s where financial affirmations can help. I’m not saying that repeating “I’m going…

It’s been a rough week for me medically, I’ve been totally miserable. BUT! Thanks to everyone’s help (here, Bluesky, Mastodon, email regulars), early last week, I placed a BIG second set of orders to feed 10 more families for more than 1 week. We’ve been tracking the TWENTY EIGHT shipments. Most have arrived, a few […]

Be confident about Data Protection, Privacy and the GDPR “Data Protection” is a specific legal framework governing how organisations collect, use, store, share and delete personal data, referred to in legal terms as ‘processing’. “Privacy” is a broader concept. It is about a person’s right to control their personal life, communications and personal information and to be free from unwanted intrusion. GDPR Legislation GDPR, or to use its full name the “General Data Protection Regulations”, […]

Every AI tool you’ve used stops working the moment you stop typing. You ask. It answers. Then it waits for you to come back. Dots don’t wait. OpenAI introduced them on September 29, 2026, at its DevDay event, and they keep working in the background after your conversation ends. A dot remembers what you asked for last week. It keeps the work moving while you’re off the clock. And it checks in when there’s a […]

As part of a book club that attracts folks at an inflection point, I’m currently reading Jim Collins’ What To Make of a Life. I’ve not read his other books, but apparently he has quite a following in the tech / business world, and the founder of this book club is a Business School professor. The book consists of a summary of lessons gleaned from studying the available information on a number of well-documented (i.e., […]

I can’t believe it has been four years since I last set an alarm clock to wake up for an early team meeting. It’s been four years since I handed in my notice to my job and planned to travel the world with no home base– indefinitely. And it’s been a year since I wrote […] The post 4 Years of Early Retirement – Is It What I Imagined? first appeared on Financial Mechanic.