I learned about this amazing strategy to set up your kids for retirement. You can contribute to their IRA from the moment they're born if you hire them as an "employee" or pay them for "work".

For example, if the child does some chores like cleaning up the yard or cleaning the house you can pay them a real wage. They can then take up to $7000 USD tax free (if you pay them as an LLC) into their retirement account per year.

Assuming you do that from the age of 0 to 17 with an average return of 10% per year on the stock market you would have contributed $119k but the account would have grown to $312k due to the 10%.

Now, assume your child doesn't contribute a single dollar from the age of 17 to 65 (age of retirement). The account would grow to $30 million USD just from the 10% compounding growth per year.

Your child retires a millionaire regardless of what path they take in life.

Roth IRA contributions can be withdrawn tax free at any time. Earning withdrawals are taxed and penalized at an additional 10%.

If you hire them as an employee or contractor for your own personal business you can take an additional tax deduction because they would be considered a business expense.

One awesome effect of reading blogs is it makes the internet feel bigger. For a long time, as I said in a previous post, I was stuck visting a few websites and the internet felt really boring and small. But reading blogs makes it feel alive and interesting again. I think the fact that I'm reading books more consistently has increased the joy I feel when reading. I remember a time, not so long ago, when I would try to skim articles as quickly as possible because reading felt like a chore accompanied by uncomfortable emotions.

With reading a page a day I notice an increased enjoyment when reading.

In order to make elfeed a bit more comfortable to use I added these keybindings. I'm using evil-mode by the way as I love vim keybindings and motions.

(evil-leader/set-key
  "e e" 'elfeed
  "e r" 'elfeed-update
  "e s" 'elfeed-summary)