How to Quit Your Job and Start Your Own Business
Quick post to let you know I’ve decided to move from Buenos Aires back to the bay area (where I grew up). I’ll be moving in a few days. I was planning to keep traveling for a while but a great opportunity came up to work on a new startup. While I was back in [...]
I just finished doing my financial statements for last month, and was pretty happy when I noticed that it only cost a total of $1,018 USD for me to live and work in Buenos Aires last month! That’s really cheap, certainly much cheaper than living in the U.S. This proves the point I wrote about [...]
In: Lifestyle|Psychology
13 Jun 2009I don’t do posts about my personal life that often, but I thought this one might help some people. DSPS is a sleeping disorder (Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome) and while I only found out it had a name years later, I started experiencing it around the time I entered high school (13 years old). Here [...]
I shot some video today while walking around BA. It’s gotten a little bit colder here lately and it was overcast today but still pretty nice. Here is the YouTube video: Few other random discoveries since last week:
As part of getting ready to move to Argentina I have to sell my car. Two good pieces of advice I’ve gotten: Don’t wait till the last week to sell it even if you need the car. The cost of renting a car for a few days is negligible to the cost of having to [...]
In: Lifestyle
20 Jan 2009One of the greatest things about working for yourself is the mobility. Freedom comes in a lot of forms: Free time for doing things you really enjoy. Freedom to make your own decisions without a boss. And freedom to travel at will. It’s great to know that I don’t have to ask people for time [...]
In: Lifestyle
14 Nov 2008The whole idea of retirement is based on the assumption that you dislike what you’re doing enough to want to stop one day. Instead, you should be pursuing “financial freedom” – the moment when your passive income exceeds your living expenses – because then you can really start to do your life’s work. Maybe you’ll [...]
Breaking Free is a blog for people who'd like to quit their 9-to-5, start their own business, and achieve financial freedom. It's written by web-entrepreneur Brian Armstrong. You can read more here »