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Do the Wealthy have a Role to Play in Reducing Inflation?
Could simply spending less ease the burden for others?
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June 2023

Getting a Pay Rise in the Age of Lay-Offs
Gotta beat inflation somehow...
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May 2023

Luxuries Worth Paying For
Sometimes the best things in life ain't free
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Six Figures Ain't What it Used to Be
If you want to be wealthy, you need to aim much higher.
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2023: The Year of The Cash ISA
Inflation rises and markets fall...
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April 2023

Is Being a Founder, Even if your Company Fails, a Viable Path to Early Retirement?
Big Tech is riskier than ever, and founder's salaries are growing all the time.
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Stay Afloat in Your Section 104 Pool
The pool party nobody wants to be invited to.
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Is Overemployment the Best Path to Early Retirement?
If you find yourself looking at memes at work due to boredom, this could be for you.
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Meet a Subscriber #1
In the first of this series, we meet Ryan, a Staff Software Engineer from Instagram
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March 2023

How to Earn Six Figures as a Software Engineer in the UK
TLDR; work hard, smart and grind Leetcode.
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Failing to Build a Side Income Stream Through Amazon Affiliate Marketing
Theoretically simple, the reality is a brutal grind.
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The Abolishment of the Pension Lifetime Allowance and how it Impacts my FIRE Plans
The answer may surprise and bore you
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