Financial Independence Blogs / Bloggers

One of my favourite pastimes is investing and personal finance. I have always loved reading about it, writing and thinking about it. It used to be that I would read a stack of books on investments and wanted to get into the thought processes of successful investors.

So, of course I love reading blogs and articles now written by investors and financial independence writers. It’s a great way to understand the psyche, as well as the day-to-day workings of financial independence.

Here is a list of a few of my regular reads:

Financial Independence and Retire Early Blogs / Financial Independence Bloggers

These are my favourite blogs that speak to either becoming financially independent or further investment ideas post FI.

• ESI Money – enjoyable blogger with a wealth of information from the interviews with other millionaires. The interviews provide fantastic insight into reaching millionaire status, and from there we can extrapolate on financial independence. Enjoy the focus on earnings, saving and investing, not just FI or FIRE.
• Financial Samurai – former investment banker. Enjoy the blog due to it’s focus on growth post FIRE, not just getting to financial independence.
• Mr Money Mustache – MMM has great topics on reaching FIRE, especially on the focus of car ownership, homes and efficiency.
• Early Retirement Extreme – Although Jacob no longer writes, his thoughts around systems and how you can solve problems with money or systems has been at the forefront of the FIRE movement.
• Mad Fientist – great interviews with other investors and thought leaders. He also has great information about living and learning post FI.

Financial Independence Lifestyle

This short list are a few of the blogs I classify as lifestyle blogs. They speak to their day-to-day life as much as they speak about financial independence. I enjoy seeing what life is like post-FI for these guys, since it shows both what it’s like to achieve FI as well as how to reach that goal.

• Go Curry Cracker – great stories about life in Taiwan as an expat and travel, raising kids and financial independence optimization.
• Root of Good – living in the US with three kids. Great insight into how to have a great lifestyle without spending a fortune.
• Retire by 40 – Joe has great stories as a SAHD, raising kids, living in the US with parents in Thailand.
• Mr Tako Escapes – SAHD, great cooking and one of the few FIRE blogs that focusses on individual shares versus index funds – a great read.

South African Finance Blogs

I need to include a few of my favourite SA blogs here too.

• The Investor Challenge – blog written by Patrick about investments/FIRE as a South African. Enjoy the regular global views, while still including funny stories about being in SA.
• Tribal FI – SA-based blogger, former corporate executive, with interesting investing ideas and recently FIRE’d. Enjoyable stories about Cape Town life.
• Stealthy Wealth – concepts of financial independence and narrative of his own journey. Arranged a number of interesting get togethers for the financial independence community.
• Just One Lap – respected author and investor Simon Brown talking about investments and more recently financial investments from a SA context. Has a lot of material and interviews across the financial spectrum.

So that’s my current list of a few of my favourite bloggers and investors that I enjoy reading. Perhaps you’ll enjoy their content as much as I do. I generally subscribe via e-mail updates or RSS feeds.

Let me know if there are any other blogs you particularly enjoy in the comments.