I totally appreciate people settling into a groove. I think it’s kind of weird when I see people claim the FIRE movement is slowing down, when I think people just ran out of stuff to say about it, and the big spokespeople are largely happily retired.
I’m kind of that way myself. I’ve lost my initial excitement, so I’m interested in seeing others get excited. I see a lot of negativity both here and elsewhere, and I see the FIRE movement as being largely optimistic, so I’d like to do my part and spread that optimism.
I’m still learning things related to FIRE, but most if it isn’t really actionable (e.g. I just learned details about the Social Security spousal benefit). So maybe a “back to basics” series would be more interesting, idk.
Anyway, I’m largely just thinking out loud, but I do want to see more engagement here so it can be a resource to FIRE-minded people who don’t want to use Reddit for whatever reason.
I think you might be right that FIRE, as a movement, has sort of crested that initial wave of public enthusiasm and is not the topic of conversation that it had been, but is still flowing quietly in the background for a large number of people.
I think what the Reddit sub had going was lots of new or curious people asking questions and people providing feedback. It seems like we only have a small group of people that are already on the path, so we don’t have much to talk about. If the back to basics approach drew in new people, that might help to get things started here. But I’ve always tended to be more of a lurker, so I don’t have many ideas about how to increase engagement.
Ah, engagement for the sake of engagement. 😀
I totally appreciate people settling into a groove. I think it’s kind of weird when I see people claim the FIRE movement is slowing down, when I think people just ran out of stuff to say about it, and the big spokespeople are largely happily retired.
I’m kind of that way myself. I’ve lost my initial excitement, so I’m interested in seeing others get excited. I see a lot of negativity both here and elsewhere, and I see the FIRE movement as being largely optimistic, so I’d like to do my part and spread that optimism.
I’m still learning things related to FIRE, but most if it isn’t really actionable (e.g. I just learned details about the Social Security spousal benefit). So maybe a “back to basics” series would be more interesting, idk.
Anyway, I’m largely just thinking out loud, but I do want to see more engagement here so it can be a resource to FIRE-minded people who don’t want to use Reddit for whatever reason.
I think you might be right that FIRE, as a movement, has sort of crested that initial wave of public enthusiasm and is not the topic of conversation that it had been, but is still flowing quietly in the background for a large number of people.
I think what the Reddit sub had going was lots of new or curious people asking questions and people providing feedback. It seems like we only have a small group of people that are already on the path, so we don’t have much to talk about. If the back to basics approach drew in new people, that might help to get things started here. But I’ve always tended to be more of a lurker, so I don’t have many ideas about how to increase engagement.