Tag: retirement
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What’s the most spontaneous thing you’ve ever done?
Reading Time: < 1 minute A spontaneous decision at 22 led to a failed painting business, a hard lesson about friendship, and an unexpected path into a technology career.
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A place I visited that felt like home.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Home has meant different things at different times in my life. Brazil is nothing like those homes, yet somehow it has felt like home from the very beginning.
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Retirement Wasn’t Enough—So I Built a Business
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’m putting 40 years of tech experience to work in retirement, brushing up my skills and launching a little web venture. Now I need your help.
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Daily Writing Prompt 15-Sep: What’s the Best Advice You’d Give to Someone Younger Than You?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Do your best, avoid unnecessary debt, don’t chase money, love someone for who they are, and remember that even the rough times eventually pass.
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Daily Writing Prompt 13-Sep: What’s the Longest Trip You’ve Ever Taken?
Reading Time: < 1 minute `My longest trip was to Brazil: nearly 24 hours of travel and, once, a two-month stay that blurred the line between work and vacation.`
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Daily Writing Prompt 10-Sep: How Does Your Mindset Affect Your Financial Success?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Financial success isn’t always about accumulating wealth. Sometimes it’s having enough, enjoying life, accepting what you can’t change, and being happy.
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Daily Writing Prompt 5-Sep: If you could relive one year of your life, which one would it be?
Reading Time: < 1 minute What year of your life would you relive? I’m not picking one yet. Life isn’t over, and I’m not ready to rank the years just yet.
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The Week In Review 24-Aug: Dispatches from Rio: A Week of AI, Satire, and Saturday Reflections
Reading Time: 9 minutes A look back at the week on BeingKevin, featuring Brazil, history, books, TV, retirement, humor, technology, family, and life abroad.
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The Hidden Cost of Living the Dream
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is a hidden cost to being an Expat. Everything has a cost.