Brandon Gantch, also known as the Mad Fiantist, reached financial independence and quit his job as a software developer at the age of 34.

That was in 2016. Since then, he's faced a vexing question, what should he do with the rest of his life?

As a scientist, he takes a scientist's approach to FI or financial independence.

And so he has had seven or eight years to experiment, iterate test hypotheses.

And in today's episode, he shares his findings with us.

Welcome to the Afford Anything Podcast, the show that understands you can afford anything, but not everything.

Every choice carries a tradeoff.

That's true for your money, your time, your phone, Every choice carries a trade-off.

That's true for your money, your time, your focus, your energy for every limited resource.

This is a show about how to optimize your limited resources so you can live your best and richest life.

I'm your host Paula Pant, I trained in economic reporting at Columbia and I help you focus on what matters. In today's conversation I talked to

the Fiantist himself, a good friend Brandon Ganch, who now lives in Scotland with his wife and son. We've been great

friends for many years. He was one of my first guests in the early days of this

podcast and it's an honor and a privilege to have him back on the show.

Here he is, Brandon, the Mad Fiantist.

Hi Brandon.

Hey, how's it going?

Good to see you again.

It's good to see you too. It's been so long. I know. It was a fun day. I was glad we were able to get together. It's not often people come all the way to Scotland. We had a good day and I apologize again for racing year round the city, but I'm so used to walking so fast and my legs are probably twice as long as yours.

Oh, it was fantastic. I'm such a Harry Potter nerd. I'm even wearing my Harry Potter ring right now.

And you showed me all of the Harry Potter nerd-dom spots of Edinburgh, which was amazing,

just absolutely amazing.

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