Stanley Kwak

Comments:

• Jonathan, thank you for continuing to share so much valuable information during this highly challenging time. All the best to you.

  Post: No Slowing Down

  Link to comment from July 27, 2024

• Jonathan, I am so very sorry to hear of your incredibly challenging situation. I am actually speechless. Reading your post I found myself thinking of the famous quote from Jackie Robinson: "A life is not important accept in the impact it has on other lives". You have positively impacted so many people, likely millions of people. That is an amazing accomplishment and one that should make you feel very proud. Thank you for all of your love, honesty and wisdom.

  Post: The C Word

  Link to comment from June 15, 2024

• Brilliant post. Thank you!!

  Post: In My Room

  Link to comment from February 10, 2024

• Jonathan, I enjoyed this piece very much. You make several excellent points. Thank you for sharing. As a semi-early retiree at age 56, I have fortunately been retired almost two years. As such, I am navigating many of the waters that you describe. Retirement, like anything else, has its own unique challenges. I may very well get a part-time job at some point in my journey. I absolutely reserve the right to do so if I wish. However, I will share that I have quickly grown to cherish the time freedom that my early retirement has afforded me. At this point, I am reluctant to take on anything that may hinder my joyous, largely unbridled time freedom.

  Post: Fire Meets Ice

  Link to comment from February 10, 2024

• I completely respect everyone's right to hold private any personal information that they wish. This includes any personal finances details that they wish to keep a secret. However, I disagree that money need be a taboo topic or even that the topic is best handled as a very private matter. We share openly about our finances with friends and family. Doing so allows us to have very open dialogues about many personal finance topics that would otherwise go undiscussed. By sharing openly we are leveraging our collective financial knowledge in a communal fashion which I believe leads to to betterment of all involved. I believe doing so helps to raise all boats with the tide. After all, all of us, collectively, are much smarter than any one of us.

  Post: It’s a Secret

  Link to comment from February 9, 2024

• Dick - once again you provide amazingly simply, yet solid advice. Have you ever considered running for public office? :)

  Post: Aiming for Less

  Link to comment from January 6, 2024

• Jeff - great choices on starter books. I would likely add Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez as well as The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins to your list. I gift these often to recent college graduates of friends/family. I suspect that Future Jeff will be very pleased that Past Jeff saved so diligently. Savings, when we’ll executed, is really just delayed consumption. Given that you cannot change the past, all that is left is for Present Jeff to spend some of this savings in a way that makes him most happy! 😁

  Post: The Write Stuff

  Link to comment from September 23, 2023

• Ken, I too love a good spreadsheet and have many years of financial data captured in these treasured documents. I like your back up idea and will be implementing this by year end! Thank you for sharing.

  Post: Driven by Data

  Link to comment from September 23, 2023

• Jonathan, nicely done. While I enjoy your writing as a whole, I am consistently amazed at how well you present your thoughts. Your writing skills are really amazing. Thanks!

  Post: Absolutely Fine

  Link to comment from September 23, 2023

• Mike - a really fantastic article. Thank you for sharing.

  Post: Rise of the Ronin

  Link to comment from September 21, 2023