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We’ve been talking a bit about retirement over the last few days, and we have an Understandably Live coming up this afternoon (1 pm ET today, watch here on YouTube or here on LinkedIn) that bounces right up against the subject.

As I mentioned yesterday, I’ll be talking with a 35-year-old ex-Amazon employee who quit earlier this year instead of going back to the office—and who realized he’d set himself up for very early retirement, decades before an earlier generation would have thought possible.

This is going to be a different kind of Understandably Live than I’ve done in the past—more of a “behind the scenes with Bill as he does what he does” sort of thing. Basically, I’d decided to do this interview for a possible article, and then thought:

Heck, why don’t I invite anyone who’s interested to sit in?

You’ll get to see how the sausage is made.

Leading up to today’s live interview, I thought I’d start out today with the opposite: a highly successful person who will quite clearly never ret…