Frugality has a bad reputation. It sounds like eating cold beans from a can while wrapped in a blanket because you can’t afford heating. It brings to mind…
Read more Frugality Is Precision, Not Deprivation – Dragos RouaSpoiler: you can. You already are. Traditionally, old age was always a mark of wisdom, or at least useful experience. Something has changed, though, and, if you are…
Read more Can You Stay Relevant After 50, In The Age of AI? – Dragos RouaA while ago I wrote a mini-review for 3 digital nomad friendly debit cards. The rationale was that location independent peeps need better money tools than your usual,…
Read more 3 Digital Nomad And Crypto Friendly Debit Cards – Revisited – Dragos Roua15 years ago, while on a trip to Thailand (one of my very first trips to Asia), I created a productivity framework called Assess-Decide-Do. It’s built on the…
Read more Assess Decide Do – 15 Years After – Dragos RouaFor the last 3 years, I’ve been living mostly in Asia, with bases in South Korea and Vietnam, and short visa runs in Thailand or Bali. I’m also…
Read more Asia for Digital Nomads – A Primer – Dragos RouaI made it. Today I turn 55. So far, my survival rate is 100%. Not bad. Actually, it’s way better than “not bad”. I call this decade the…
Read more 55 Life Lessons I learned in 55 Years – Dragos RouaWhen 14-year-old Sun Yong Kim-Manzolini was adopted from Korea by an American couple, she didn’t know English or much about the U.S. — only that it was supposed…
Read more How a Grandma Who Made $35k Earns 7 Figures in Retirement | EntrepreneurIt was 2017, the year before they got married, when Ali and Josh Lupo took a serious look at their finances — and realized they owed more than…
Read more How to Make More Money in 2023, According to The FI CoupleTechnology optimizes for performance. Business optimizes for profit. Biological evolution optimizes for survival. Spirituality optimizes for compassion (non-aggression). How does this work out in real life? To be…
Read more Optimize For What’s Necessary – Dragos RouaDec 24, 2021 Dec 3, 2025 2021-12-24 July was a settling month. A little bit of routine settled in, but I also allocate time for more exploration. Many…
Read more 2021 Monthly Recap – July – Dragos RouaDec 23, 2021 Dec 3, 2025 2021-12-23 After 5 very tumultuous months (although just by looking at the articles here you couldn’t tell) June was finally a month…
Read more 2021 Monthly Recap – June – Dragos RouaDec 22, 2021 Dec 3, 2025 2021-12-22 May was my first month into a new country, so the move was roughly completed. I didn’t set base into a…
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