And honestly, I need some more time to sit back and ponder what I actually want to do with my life because I still haven't made up my mind.
And when do you plan to do this? The years will pass quicker than you think. And suddenly you'll have choices to make, without having done the proper thought or analysis.
Not to mention even if you do make a decision, often the transition takes time (in which the stache piles up even more), so making ti earlier rather than later can be beneficial, to plan in this transition time.
I mean, you still have time. But there's no time like the present. Thinking about when to think about this stuff may be important.
Right now, my retirement ideas are very heavily focused on experimentation, but maybe they will crystallize more over time.
And all of this experimentation, ideas, or activities are reliant on being full time, i.e. having no job? None can be done on weekends, evenings, vacations, etc. etc.?
In other words, your spending is great. But to shift from 0 to 80k spending (or whatever) seems odd to me. If there's some things you might like to spend on later, not doing it now can make sense on some of them (something that would require you being in another country, for example), or not spending on things you don't care about (say, eating out) always makes sense. But not spending on something you want just to live ascetically when you'll be spending more later?
Spend based on your values, and if your values change, sure. And acquiring more to not HAVE to live like this is smart. But don't hold back now, necessarily, or deprive yourself. Looking back and feeling like you.. not exactly wasted your 20s and early 30s, because you did make great financial progress..but maybe that you didn't take full advantage of them due to solely focusing on financials would be a bummer. You're only young once, so to spend age 25-35 spending 0, doing no other hobby spending, very limited travel, etc. just to amass 2MM and spend a lot more... well, you may find yourself wishing you did it a bit different in that 25-35 decade. You could still hit 1MM by 35, or 1.5MM, or whatever, even loosening a bit.
So if you're 100% happy with your spending and activities, great. More power to you. And I'd think for many ERE people, this would be the case. But in your case, with the future plans to ramp it up, my question becomes...why not do a little of that now? Living as you are is awesome.. if that's what you want to do (especially indefinitely). If you have dreams of something else, it may be worth trying to have some of those dreams now, rather than waiting.
I feel like I rambled a bit, I was struggling to get my point across, but hopefully some of that made sense. :)
Some stuff to think about at least, maybe.