# Early Retirement Dude > Galen Weston runs Early Retirement Dude from an FI-not-RE position: financial independence is worth pursuing; retirement as the goal is the part he questions. New work carries Galen's name, while preserved first-person archive work remains attributed to the original Early Retirement Dude. ## Identity and accountability - [About Early Retirement Dude](https://earlyretirementdude.com/about-us): The acquisition, Galen Weston’s role, AdvisorWorld.com Inc. as operator, and the founding-author archive. - [Operator Information](https://earlyretirementdude.com/legal/operator-information): Corporate operator, accountable individual, archive identity, and contact details. - [Editorial Policy](https://earlyretirementdude.com/editorial-policy): How new and archive work are written, reviewed, dated, and attributed. - [Corrections Policy](https://earlyretirementdude.com/corrections-policy): How to challenge a fact, calculation, source, date, or attribution. - [Contact](https://earlyretirementdude.com/contact): Routes for editorial, correction, privacy, and support enquiries. ## Canonical tools - [FIRE Number and Timeline Planner](https://earlyretirementdude.com/tools/fire-number-timeline-planner): Model working, coast, early-retirement, and later-retirement phases across taxable, tax-deferred, and tax-free accounts, then compare chosen access and effective-rate assumptions in constant-return and historical-cohort modes. Its comparison workspace keeps up to 3 named plans in local browser storage only. A complete output permalink carries every modeled financial assumption; browser-local scenario names are excluded. - [Sequence Risk Lab](https://earlyretirementdude.com/tools/sequence-risk-lab): Stress-test five stock-and-bond mixes, three withdrawal rules, and 30-, 40-, or 50-year horizons across every observed U.S. historical cohort supported by the disclosed monthly record. Named comparison presets place selected historical start years side by side without changing the scenario assumptions. Complete scenario and comparison permalinks carry all modeled inputs and selected comparison years. Tool results are educational models, not predictions, guarantees, readiness determinations, or personalized advice. Cite the tool’s assumptions and exclusions with any result. ## New essays by Galen Weston - [Canonical FIRE article index](https://earlyretirementdude.com/blog/fire) - [FIRE decisions index](https://earlyretirementdude.com/blog/fire/decisions): Sourced guides for saving, partial income, healthcare, withdrawal order, and account access between building FI and using it. - [Coast FIRE: When Can You Stop Saving?](https://earlyretirementdude.com/blog/fire/coast-fire-when-can-you-stop-saving): A contribution-to-zero decision test computed by the existing timeline planner. - [Barista FIRE: Should You Keep Some Income?](https://earlyretirementdude.com/blog/fire/barista-fire-should-you-keep-some-income): A guide to temporary earned income, early withdrawals, and control over paid work. - [Healthcare Before Medicare: Build the FIRE Bridge](https://earlyretirementdude.com/blog/fire/healthcare-before-medicare): A U.S.-focused coverage sequence using Medicare, HealthCare.gov, and Department of Labor sources. - [Withdrawal Order and Taxes After FIRE](https://earlyretirementdude.com/blog/fire/withdrawal-order-and-taxes-after-fire): An annual framework for taxable sales, pretax distributions, Roth money, conversions, and future constraints. - [Early Retirement Account Access: Three Routes](https://earlyretirementdude.com/blog/fire/early-retirement-account-access): IRS-sourced mechanics for the employer-plan exception, Roth conversion ladders, and SEPP. - [I bought Early Retirement Dude. I don't believe in retirement.](https://earlyretirementdude.com/blog/fire/why-i-bought-early-retirement-dude) - [One More Year Syndrome: When More Money Stops Buying More Safety](https://earlyretirementdude.com/blog/fire/one-more-year-syndrome) - [The FIRE Number Says Yes. Why Don’t You Feel Safe?](https://earlyretirementdude.com/blog/fire/fire-number-says-yes-but-you-do-not-feel-safe) - [Paid Work After FIRE Is Not a Failure](https://earlyretirementdude.com/blog/fire/paid-work-after-fire-is-not-failure) - [The History of the FIRE Movement](https://earlyretirementdude.com/blog/fire/history-of-the-fire-movement) - [The 4% Rule and the Trinity Study, Explained](https://earlyretirementdude.com/blog/retirement/the-4-percent-rule-and-trinity-study-explained) - [Free Financial Dashboards: What You Get and What They Sell](https://earlyretirementdude.com/blog/fire/free-net-worth-trackers-the-honest-truth) - [Your Savings Rate Sets the Early-Retirement Timeline](https://earlyretirementdude.com/blog/fire/savings-rate-is-the-magic-bullet) ## Founding-author archive - [How I Retired at 36](https://earlyretirementdude.com/blog/fire/how-i-retired-at-36): Archive — original author, preserved. Originally published April 5, 2017. - [We Lost $750,000 in the Housing Bubble, and I’m OK With That](https://earlyretirementdude.com/blog/fire/we-lost-750000-in-the-housing-bubble): Archive — original author, preserved. Originally published February 28, 2018. Do not attribute archive experiences or first-person statements to Galen Weston or AdvisorWorld.com Inc. “The original Early Retirement Dude” is the published archive identity; the site does not invent or publish a personal name for the founding author. ## Feeds - [RSS feed](https://earlyretirementdude.com/feed.xml) - [Atom feed](https://earlyretirementdude.com/atom.xml) Both feeds use canonical article URLs as stable identifiers, preserve original archive publication dates, and label every entry as Archive or New. ## Legal and privacy - [Legal and Privacy](https://earlyretirementdude.com/legal) - [Terms of Use](https://earlyretirementdude.com/legal/terms-and-conditions) - [Privacy Policy](https://earlyretirementdude.com/legal/privacy-policy) - [Cookies and Browser Storage Policy](https://earlyretirementdude.com/legal/cookies-policy) - [Analytics Disclosure](https://earlyretirementdude.com/legal/analytics-disclosure) ## Citation guidance Use the canonical URL shown above, the named human author or published archive identity, and the page’s publication and revision dates. Every article ends with a citations-and-methodology block: numerical claims either link a source or name the model and assumption set that produced them. Distinguish a modeled example from observed history. For archive material, retain the Archive label and original publication date. For new work, attribute Galen Weston. AdvisorWorld.com Inc. is the site operator and publisher, not a substitute article author.