At the risk of sounding a bit old, please hear me out. I promise you that this article will not be about the advantages of giving up your life of leisure and start a family at 20 so by the time you are 40 and still young, you can enjoy going to operas on your Maserati. This is about far more than the above: it is about building wealth as a result of the opportunities that are afforded to you as a common human being because of the connections that you will make with other people with responsibilities other than … Read more

People like Katy Perry, Beyonce and PewDiePie are called influencers by the media. It makes sense: youths are fascinated by their shiny lifestyles. There is someone to inspire all of us out there as if they were made in our image. Guess what: they are made in our image, the products of publicists and data, not authenticity. Ok, that is out of the way. Now it makes sense why these people have replaced our grandmothers, bosses, significant others, presidents, and others as our sources of wisdom. They are not people: they are memes created for profit. They should not matter. … Read more

How to save 40K in 2 years and buy 2 apartments that pay for themselves I have recently met a woman in her late 30s with a middle management salary and no exceptional, grand vision for life. She was about to become a mother, had plenty of zest for life, tons of friends, a boyfriend that loves her, all the good stuff. She did not look or acted like a person that prioritized long term financial independence. But indeed she had. Not too long after she started saving, she started to research the real estate market in Berlin and build … Read more