For someone who’s spent months building financial calculators and obsessing over living frugal and on FIRE, I’ve come full swing around and started to realise that this lifestyle of control might just be an illusion.

Counting the pennies I pinch is easy, but trying to count the lost opportunities because I was overly obsessed, well, is impossible.

About a decade ago I bought a domain name to start blogging, but if I pinched the pennies and decided against spending money on a domain and website, I might never have written a blog post about how I would make WhatsApp better, never gotten noticed by a Silicon Valley startup, never would have had the career opportunities I had and perhaps never have written this comment.

Now, in hindsight, there have been many more of these moments.

I call them multiplier moments — small moments that compound over time. These multiplier moments are impossible to calculate and they only become apparent in hindsight, like the example above.

So, yeah, you’re spot on Darius, there is a price to living frugal and more often than not, it’s uncountable.

Thanks for the reminder.)