Everything to read, one shelf.
Two kinds of reading live here. The references — the guide, the atlas, the canon, the glossary — written once and kept current. Under them, the essays: first person, blunt, lived. None of it is advice.
Written once, kept current.
The durable half of the shelf — free forever.
The European FIRE guide
The one the canon never wrote: the same arithmetic of freedom, rebuilt around UCITS funds, wealth and exit taxes, and a state pension you may not touch for decades.
OpenThe Europe atlas
The rules that matter for an exit — 31 countries so far, every figure verified against official sources on a schedule.
OpenThe state of FIRE in Europe
What changed in the rules that decide a European exit this year — verified, one edition a year, kept online so citations don't rot.
OpenThe dataset
The atlas's summary layer as JSON and CSV — statuses, costs, clocks and verified dates. Free for charts and research, with the credit.
OpenThe FIRE canon
The dozen writers everyone quotes — what to take from each, and where each one stops working once you're European and retiring young.
OpenThe glossary
Every term the movement throws around, in plain English, with what each actually means for you.
OpenTwelve exits, worked
Twelve invented people, real arithmetic: the number, the years, the odds, the traps — every figure wired into the tools, every verdict honest.
OpenThe essays.
First person, blunt, lived — the thinking behind the whole site.
The spreadsheet goblin
I once walked across Dublin to save a bus fare — and put my whole portfolio where the fees were lowest from day one. Which optimisations are worth it, from someone who's lived both ends of the spreadsheet.
10 July 2026 · 4 min read
I retired at 34
The whole exit, told straight: proved on a bicycle, finished with a flight to Lisbon, celebrated with nothing. And the record corrected — I was 34, not 33. I never remember my age.
7 July 2026 · 4 min read
Why people don't quit
Some of my friends have been one year away for five years. It stopped being about the money a long time ago — on fear, and the cheapest first step I've seen actually work.
1 July 2026 · 3 min read
Buying freedom
How many years of freedom are you buying this month? I used to price everything that way. What's left of the arithmetic now — and the things people misprice most.
25 June 2026 · 3 min read
The blank page
Nobody warns you about the morning after financial independence: the freedom turns up empty-handed. What I've learnt about filling it.
19 June 2026 · 3 min read
The number
The maths from the talk: how big the pot, why I count thirty times spending rather than twenty-five, and what I actually hold. Still not advice — just my own sums, shown.
12 June 2026 · 4 min read
Own your time
Notes from a talk I gave on financial independence, tightened up. None of it is advice — it's just how I think about money.
5 June 2026 · 3 min read
Then run the numbers in the tools — or bring the hard part to a session.
Bring me a challenge.
The Exit Audit, then ninety minutes: a straight verdict, real alternatives with their pros and cons, and your first move. If you want someone to nod along, I’m the wrong person to pay.