Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus

retired at 33; former engineer and attorney; FIRE blogger; professional dilettante

[Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus @RootofGoodBlog]

Growing your wealth may require a bit of struggle and sacrifice at times. It might even be a grind!

You know what's even more of a grind?

Being poor forever.

[Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus @RootofGoodBlog]

@Noahpinion Plot twist: data center becomes the new casino.

[Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus @RootofGoodBlog]

@steveonomics Legend

[Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus @RootofGoodBlog]

@steveonomics Or 23 more international flight tickets!

[Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus @RootofGoodBlog]

@ginge650 Around here men don't shave arms and legs! ha ha

[Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus @RootofGoodBlog]

"Man I wish I was sitting in my cubicle all day instead of sitting on the back porch" said no one, ever.

[Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus @RootofGoodBlog]

@steveonomics That's my grandniece-dog. Just babydogsitting for a couple hrs

[Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus @RootofGoodBlog]

@Noahpinion Math checks out

[Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus @RootofGoodBlog]

@jasonc_nc I'm just glad to be on the upper leg of the K and not needing a W-2. My poor kids - they are maxxing their 401ks and IRAs but they need the market to take a 50% haircut so they can catch up w/ us boomers

[Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus @RootofGoodBlog]

@steveonomics @cynicpolitic Jackpot = hand pay. Gotta wait for a slot attendant to make you fill out paperwork and give you your $

[Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus @RootofGoodBlog]

My favorite part about not paying for a blue checkmark is that you can say literally anything on this app and basically no one will ever see it.

[Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus @RootofGoodBlog]

@steveonomics @cynicpolitic For slot attendants, tips range from $0 to $100 to 10% of the jackpot. $230k in this case.

Anything over $0 feels very excessive to me unless they're backstopping your gambling losses.

[Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus @RootofGoodBlog]

Sorry, I forgot there are a few legitimate use cases. If your family lives in a despotic regime struggling from hyperinflation and u need to remit money to 'em. Or need to scam somebody or transfer $ for criminal purposes.

[Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus @RootofGoodBlog]

So wild that people still trade crypto in 2026

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: In the past 24 hours, 196,530 traders in crypto were liquidated, with the total liquidations coming in at $1.23 billion, per CoinGlass.

[Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus @RootofGoodBlog]

"Like a Klingon prison" eh? Now I kind of want to see it. For the same reasons that I had to try what one review claimed was "the worst pad thai in all of Canada" (it was in fact real real bad)

[Blair Kamin @BlairKamin]

‘Like a Klingon prison’: inside Barack Obama’s audacious, near-windowless, $850m presidential library | Architecture | Oliver Wainwright in The Guardian https://t.co/oo6c0C1OIb

[Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus @RootofGoodBlog]

@steveonomics You didn't check your car maintenance spreadsheet stored in the cloud?

[Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus @RootofGoodBlog]

Based.

Also you can just hop on a cruise out of Florida w/ a driver's license and a birth certificate and visit 31 countries in the Caribbean with no passport

[Marcus Mallomar Gaddafi Payne @MarcusDAurelius]

We call them "States."

[Justin RootofGood, Worker Emeritus @RootofGoodBlog]

If you don't tip at least 25% on food orders, then you cannot afford to dine out. Or is that a bad take?

[Jeff Rose, CFP® @jjeffrose]

Sonic asking for a tip after I pressed my own buttons, entered my own order, and drove my own car is a level of confidence I aspire to have.