I agree— I think FI really is the gradual lessening of the extent to which money controls your life (as counterintuitive as that sounds). As one of my old friends used to say, “Money doesn’t matter, unless you don’t have any!”

I don’t care how good it is for you, the Paleo diet is insane, you guys.

You’re stuck in the broken position. ;) When you have ei or ie combinations in German, the second letter is the sound. So ie is “ee” and ei is “eye.”