Good morning! Today's email includes...

A description of a "life file" -- and an argument for why you need one.

A conversation tackling a few hotly debated ideas in retirement planning.

Why Everyone Needs a Life File:

Friend-of-the-blog Mary and I had a wonderful conversation this week about an important – but depressing – topic:

Everyone should get their sh** together in case they get hit by a bus.

Seriously. It might not be a bus. But you never know when death will come knocking.

The last thing you want – other than getting hit by that bus – is to leave your loved ones with a mess after you go. Such a mess can take many forms. Financial. Logistical. Legal.

But it can all be avoided with a “Life File.” Some call it a “death binder.” Or perhaps a “get my sh** together list.” Whatever you call it, today’s topic is a cohesive packet of information for a loved one to access if/when you die. To add some semantic cheer to this dreary topic, we’ll refer to it as a Life File throughout this article. Yay! Life!

Let’s get to it. What info do you need to include in your Life File?

Debate! We Discuss 10 Big Retirement Ideas

For appetizers in this episode, I explain some "selection bias" from the Bogleheads and FIRE communities, and then I explain a really cool research idea about "needles in the haystack" in the stock market.

For the main course, Andrew Giancola joined me for a fast-paced, opinionated conversation tackling some of the most debated ideas in investing and retirement planning.

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Until Next Week

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Until next week,

Jesse