Edition #26: What’s A Life Changing Amount of Money?

Plus: 4% Rule, Cooking as a Financial Skill, Investing a little vs a lot

My brain is still recovering from the rave I went to on July 4th. Delta variant be damned, it was great to be maskless and dancing with thousands of other people.

Here’s a blurry pic from a drone light show. “We back baby!”

My 30 days of writing challenge is still sailing. A nice bonus is that I now have over 200 followers — mostly from other people in the writing challenge. Yeah, I’m kiiiind of a big deal now.

Here are a couple things I’ve learned so far in this challenge:

• Consistent output, at some cost. By the time you read this, I would’ve produced 17 mini essays (all collected in this Twitter thread.) It’s definitely honed my ability to write “off the cuff” — but these are hot takes that don’t require research. I’m still trying to find a way to carve out time for longer-form pieces and projects, like book reviews.
• Visual essays work: Using Twitter analytics, I can tell how many people engage with my media —…