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Time Marches On

Mr. Clipping Chains — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 06:00:00 +0000

After seven years, and with a heavy heart, I’m here to say that life’s path is leading elsewhere. And I feel it’s best to follow that intuition. I can’t say for sure, but this will probably be my last post. Listen to the Podcast I’ll begin with a secret: I never cared much about the …

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Yonder Goes Little Maggie

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Our dog, Maggie, died suddenly but not unexpectedly at our home on May 25th, 2024. This is a story of our lives together, and why losing a pet can cut so deeply in today’s world. Listen to the Podcast They say that grief comes on like a tsunami, a wave of incredible power and uncontrollable …

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A Therapist on Satisfaction in Sport, Life, and Love

Mr. Clipping Chains — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:00:00 +0000

If you haven’t noticed, the concept of achievement and even competitiveness has weighed heavily on my mind as of late. A gift of the nontraditional life is the opportunity to step back and see the world around us with a degree of unusual clarity, far from the treadmill. For years I valued athletic and professional …

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Four Years of Financial Independence: The Slow Growth

Mr. Clipping Chains — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 07:00:00 +0000

For four years I’ve watched something slowly bloom. In my old life, the “before time” you might call it, I moved from task to task. If I wasn’t working, I unknowingly made a practice of turning recreational or hobbyist pursuits into something that, from an outsider’s perspective, looked an awful lot like work. Goals and …

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Facing the Rest of the World with a Nontraditional Lifestyle

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 07:00:00 +0000

When I left my corporate career in early 2020, I didn’t fully understand the ways that I would, in later years, slowly become decoupled and desynchronized from a society that values hustle, status, and self-worth generated to a large degree around our career titles. You’ll read the same thing repeatedly on the internet: Ignore the …

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The One Time to Be Average with Dave Rosen

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Dave Rosen is a climber and ophthalmologist in his final year of residency. And Dave grew up like so many of us: broadly exposed to the importance of money and taught a thing or two about saving, but investing was a foreign concept and his lack of knowledge was a source of shame. While Dave …

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The Real Cost of Home Ownership (and a Life Update)

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 06:00:00 +0000

In the summer of 2020, we sold our home in Denver, Colorado, where we had lived for seven years. Once all the costs were tallied, we were shocked to see the return on our home ownership investment. Should we have rented instead? Today we revisit this post in light of our recent move. Listen to …

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Six Important Reasons to Reconsider Early Retirement

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 29 May 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Today on episode 65 I’m revisiting a post published almost exactly two years ago. At the time of writing, I’d been away from my corporate job for eighteen months. I spent six months of that time living in a tiny A-frame camper with my wife and dog before resettling in the St. George, Utah area. …

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Five Lessons from Three Years of Financial Independence

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 07:00:00 +0000

One evening, circa 2011, I sat over dinner with my future wife in our small and sweaty Houston, TX rented bungalow. I was and still am an occasional cheap bastard, so the air conditioning was almost certainly set to engage on an “as-needed” basis, far from anything resembling comfort. The concept of financial independence wasn’t …

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Eudaimonia: Key Pillars of the Meaningful Life

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 14:26:23 +0000

Thinkers and philosophers of ancient times sorted out much in the way of living a meaningful and purposeful life. But after thousands of years of progress, material growth, and convenience, we largely fail to find meaning in our modern lives. Today we examine the philosophy of eudaimonia and how we can truly develop our sense …

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