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Plain-language books for ordinary people with ordinary jobs.

Honest stories about money, work and freedom, written from the middle of the road, with real numbers and real mistakes.

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Available as e-books on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books and Google Play.

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FIRE: How to Start in Your 30s

One Ordinary Investor's Honest Road to Financial Independence

I bought shares in two of the best companies of the decade, Nvidia and Amazon, and still lost money. Not because I picked badly, but because I panicked. This book is about what came next.

  • Your FIRE number, and why your savings rate beats your salary
  • Low-cost world index funds, brokers and hidden currency costs
  • A three-layer plan with real numbers, ten charts and every mistake
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How to Succeed in the Age of AI

A Field Guide for Ordinary People with Ordinary Jobs

A practical, hype-free guide to working with AI: what it is good at, where it fails, and how to use it to do better work, grow your career and stay calm while everything changes.

  • Think in tasks, not jobs
  • Real working habits with AI assistants and agents
  • Getting promoted with AI, and surviving the information flood
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"Not because I picked badly, but because I panicked."

About the author

Joseph Brenlow works in the technology industry in Central Europe, helping companies buy and use cloud software.

He started investing seriously at thirty-three, after a first attempt that ended in a panic sale, and is now at the start of a nineteen-year plan towards financial independence.

He writes plain-language books for ordinary people with ordinary jobs.