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Darrow Kirkpatrick

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Darrow Kirkpatrick is an early-retired civil and software engineer with five decades of hiking, biking, and technical rock-climbing experience, including first ascents in the Shawangunks of New York and the sandstone belt of Tennessee. He climbed three big walls in Yosemite Valley, California: The Shield and The Nose on El Capitan, and The Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome. In 2011 he founded Can I Retire Yet? — winner of the 2019 Plutus award for Best Retirement Blog. His personal finance books include Retiring Sooner and Can I Retire Yet? In 2021 he completed a six-year section hike of the 500-mile-long Colorado Trail, the subject of his memoir, Two Sticks, One Path.

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	Can I Retire Yet?: How to Make the Biggest Financial Decision of the Rest of Your Life 4.37 avg rating — 258 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“In my experience, if you are a competent and informed early retiree who enjoys helping others, you will never want for ways to produce income, if necessary. The”
― Darrow Kirkpatrick, Can I Retire Yet?: How to Make the Biggest Financial Decision of the Rest of Your Life

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“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” — Albert Einstein”
― Darrow Kirkpatrick, Can I Retire Yet?: How to Make the Biggest Financial Decision of the Rest of Your Life

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“The 4% withdrawal rate simply isn’t safe when stock market valuations are at historical highs and yields are at historical lows.”
― Darrow Kirkpatrick, Can I Retire Yet?: How to Make the Biggest Financial Decision of the Rest of Your Life

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