The Independence Calculator

Six questions. About two minutes.

Rough figures are fine. Nothing here is checked against anything, nothing is looked up, and no statements need to be pulled. An approximate answer you actually run is worth more than a precise one you never do.

Answer as honestly as you can. The calculation is only as useful as the numbers you are willing to put into it, and the only person who sees them is you.

Free. Nothing to install, no payment.

Question 1 of 6

Working out your position

Your number is ready

Where should I send it?

Your name and your email, and the result appears on the next screen. I write now and then about what actually moves these two figures: nothing urgent, nothing daily, and you can leave whenever you like.

Months of freedom you currently own
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What you told me

Your life costs
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Every month, everything included
Which is
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Every year
You hold
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Reachable within a month
Your assets produce
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Arriving without your presence

Your Independence Number

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What moves it

There are only two levers, and they are the two sides of the same equation. Anything that does not move one of them is a distraction, however confidently it is presented to you.

Lower what your life costs

Raise what your assets produce

This is arithmetic, not advice, and I am not licensed to give you any. Four percent is a widely used planning convention rather than a promise; taxes, inflation, and markets are not in this calculation, and neither is your particular situation. Treat the two numbers as a position you can now see, not as a plan.