The Sunday Best is a collection of articles I’ve curated from the furthest reaches of the internet for your reading pleasure.
Every week, I scan hundreds of headlines, read dozens of posts, and bring you the best of the best to save you time and mental energy.
Financial Independence (FI) is a primary focus, but it’s an awfully broad topic. I tend to approach FI and early retirement from a fatFIRE perspective and through the lens of a physician, so I expect to see those biases in the selected articles.
Related topics that have become recurrent themes include early retirement, selective frugality, tax issues, travel, physician issues, and investing.
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Jorge Sanchez, MD, curated this week’s articles.
The Sunday Best (04/07/2024)
Although coming up with tailored long-term strategies for retirement has become standard practice in the past few decades, many healthcare professionals struggle to identify the point where success begins: the hospital where you work.
Here’s a surgeon’s guide to Negotiating Your Hospital Employment for the best outcomes.
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Speaking of which, while there are plenty of options to diversify your income and build wealth, it can be a struggle to pick the best option. Try Big Ern’s advice on Trading Options if you’re looking to get a foot in the door.
Things can get confusing when you see everyone hustling without a ton of advice on acquiring capital. Here’s GoCurryCracker resolving the mysteries of Where the Money Comes From.
Retire by 40 shares on what to do about that 401k, using it as the easiest way to become a millionaire in, Should I Stop Contributing to My 401k?
Covering many people’s experience of dealing with risk based on childhood financial trauma, here’s the Darwinian Doctor on using Real Estate for Exponential Gains with a stocks vs real estate comparison.
The Financial Samurai offers valuable advice in this podcast on How To Overcome Your Fear Of Investing And Make More Money Long Term by developing an investment thesis.
Getting a financial advisor or doing it yourself? Craig Stephen covers the Pros and Cons of DIY Investing.
On the topic of investment, can you turn that glitter into gold? Here’s the Investment Case For Gold.
Investment portfolios can be tricky to navigate and diversify, but not if Bob French simplifies Choosing Between Individual Bonds and Bond Funds in Your Investment Portfolio.
From retaining your position in a lower tax bracket to not incurring penalties on early 401k access, Menard March on Saving More in a Taxable Brokerage Account, Maybe You Should Too.
Think of buying or renting a house not only as a massive financial decision but as something that could lead to future capital gain with Nick Maguili in, Should You Rent or Buy a House?
Learn all the ways in which you can go from being a high-income earner to a wealthy individual in this economy by following these Steps of Investing For High-Income Earners to Achieve Financial Independence.