In the summer of 2014, when I turned 41, I set myself the goal of retiring from paid-work by the age of 52. This blog charts my own strategy and progress, and explores different theories of financial independence and 'extreme early retirement'. It also provides the odd tip on how you might also retire early!
5 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the awesome Grund from the Earth Splinter. At Level one this is an awesome card even for the high mana. You have decent speed (for an L1 card), massive health and 6 overall damage...
28 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase Nerissa Tridawn from the Water Splinter.... Yet another heavy mana card for this week's challenge, which is getting a bit irritating TBH, but for the mana she backs a punch at L1 with 3...
15 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase Djinn Inferni from the Fire Splinter. While High in Mana cost the Inferni packs a heavy punch with its three magic damage, especially against high health monsters with its giant killer...
7 Jan 2023 1 minute read 1 comment RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the Life Sapper from the Death Splinter... While high in mana cost, this card has flying as a buff and high speed and decent damage with reasonable health and shields. The battle below ...
31 Dec 2022 1 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the Cursed Windeku from the Death Splinter... This is an extremely useful mid mana card - for 6 mana you get a very healthy nine health, two melee damage, thorns and reasonable speed of...
10 Dec 2022 1 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the River Nymph from the water splinter... This is a useful relatively cheap mana card at level one with one magic damage, two speed, three health and one of my favourite abilities: cle...
3 Dec 2022 1 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the Molten Ash Golem from the Fire Splinter. This is maybe an underrated card for 6 mana - with decent health and close range being its greatest strength, but the very lowest damage and...
26 Nov 2022 2 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the neutral Gem Meteor... This is an interesting card at L1 - offering high speed at a low level and also relatively high health, and with scattershot, which can shake up a battle, but...
14 Nov 2022 1 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the Dhampir Stalker from the Death Splinter... While heavy on the mana and low on speed this is a high damage card that can't miss with reasonable health, and so in higher mana battles...
5 Nov 2022 1 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the Temporal Master from the Life Splinter... This is a low mana card with one magic damage but both low speed and health at only 2 each, and with the difficult to play recharge ability...
