I help high earners become financially free and help them build the life they want
· 15 years inside Fortune 500 tech. Hundreds of these conversations. Every tool here, built on my own numbers first.
WHY I DO THIS WORK
New Year's Eve in San Francisco, 10 years ago. Everyone at the table gave a resolution. Mine was: I want to understand money.
I was already earning well. I was also anxious about money, I had this deep desire to make more and more to feel like I had ‘made it’.
But I didn't really understand money at that point. I couldn’t have told you what we spent in a month, or what would happen if the salary stopped.
After that New Years Eve, I checked. It became an obsession of mine to understand what money really is. What it could do for us. And how much of it we really needed to live a great life.
I feel freer now than I have ever been. I still work, because I want to.
What changed is that I know what we have, what our life costs, what happens if it all goes wrong and what a good life looks like for me.
As soon as I modeled the numbers and designed my life, my life changed forever.
That is the work I do with people now.
What is a year of your life worth?
The years with your kids before they leave home, not just the holidays you scramble to be present for. A summer with your parents while they're still here. The book you've been postponing. The other career you want to try.
It's a calculation that very few people run. Enter your numbers and you'll see when you could drop to part-time and still cover your life - and when work becomes fully optional.
Your figuresType over the numbers
Currency
An estimate, not a promise - projected from the age you enter. It assumes part-time means a 3-day week at about 60% of your pay, a 7% average real return, and the 4% rule (your freedom number is 25× annual spend), with your pay treated as already after tax. The biggest real-world variable is whether your job can actually go part-time. The Numbers builds the real version on your actual figures.
The findingUpdates as you type
On your current path, you could go part-time at age
50
12 more years at full pace · then part-time pay plus your investments quietly cover the rest
Never needing to work again is further out - around age 65.
Your freedom number$1.44M
If you kept just 10% more of your take-home pay - about $580/month, here's how much sooner you'd be free.
today+60%
Part-time at 43 - that's 7.0 years sooner.
2,559 days of your one life, handed back sooner.
And full freedom pulls in too - to age 60, 5.6 years sooner.
My mission is to give you years of your life back doing stuff you love.
Where this comes from
It started at a kitchen table in San Francisco.
“I've been working for something I already have.”
A friend, a senior engineer earning extraordinarily well, asked me one night whether he could stop working. He was 42, and he had no idea of the answer.
We spent three hours at the table. Pensions on one sheet, spending on another, compounding on a third. By the end he had a number, and a look somewhere between relief and embarrassment. What he said next is the sentence this whole thing is built on.
Otium is that conversation, built into a program: the same math, the same questions, on your numbers. is the original version, with me in the room. Or
Oliver Adan
Founder of Otium - the person you'd work with
I built this because I needed it first.
The goalpost kept moving for me too
For years I earned well and still carried a money anxiety I couldn’t explain - never sure what “enough” actually was, the line sliding further out every time I got close. It only stopped when I sat down, went through my own numbers, decided what enough meant, and deliberately designed the life I wanted around it.
“The Otium 1:1 conversations changed how I view my options in life. The work with Oliver made me rethink how my money can impact my life decisions and helped me feel less anxious about my financial and career situation. Worth every cent.”
V
Vakis
Ex-FAANG · Private Coaching 1:1
“I went through The Life and The Numbers during a weekend and it has made me feel a lot less anxious about money. It has also started a life-design journey that I now think about on a daily basis. I feel much less anxious about life now than I did before doing the program.”
A
Alex
Ex-FAANG · The Numbers + The Life
This is for you if
You earn well - but still carry a quiet money anxiety you can't explain.
No advisor has ever asked what you actually want your life to look like.
There's a life you keep meaning to get to - always "next year."
You want depth and a plan - not another budgeting app.
How this compares
This is the room where the math, the psychology and the life design happen together - a sequence built from the best thinking in each field, run on your real numbers, saved and private, with North reading everything you enter along the way, and a human you can email.
The Program
Understand your money, and what it's for.
Therapist
The pain underneath the money.
Financial advisor
Manages the portfolio, not the questions.
FIRE calculator
A ballpark number, nothing more.
Question
The Program
Therapist
Advisor
FIRE calc
“Am I going to be okay?”
yes - The Program
yes - Therapist
yes - Financial advisor
partial - FIRE calculator
“How much is enough?”
yes - The Program
no - Therapist
partial - Financial advisor
partial - FIRE calculator
“How much freedom do I already have?”
yes - The Program
no - Therapist
partial - Financial advisor
partial - FIRE calculator
“Will someone manage the portfolio for me?”
no - The Program
no - Therapist
yes - Financial advisor
no - FIRE calculator
“Can I afford to leave?”
yes - The Program
no - Therapist
yes - Financial advisor
yes - FIRE calculator
“Why does this still feel wrong when the numbers are fine?”
partial - The Program
yes - Therapist
no - Financial advisor
no - FIRE calculator
“Is the thing I’m afraid of actually true?”
yes - The Program
partial - Therapist
no - Financial advisor
no - FIRE calculator
“What do I actually want the years to look like?”
yes - The Program
partial - Therapist
no - Financial advisor
no - FIRE calculator
The Program vs
Question
The Program
Advisor
“Am I going to be okay?”
yes - The Program
yes - Financial advisor
“How much is enough?”
yes - The Program
partial - Financial advisor
“How much freedom do I already have?”
yes - The Program
partial - Financial advisor
“Will someone manage the portfolio for me?”
no - The Program
yes - Financial advisor
“Can I afford to leave?”
yes - The Program
yes - Financial advisor
“Why does this still feel wrong when the numbers are fine?”
partial - The Program
no - Financial advisor
“Is the thing I’m afraid of actually true?”
yes - The Program
no - Financial advisor
“What do I actually want the years to look like?”
yes - The Program
no - Financial advisor
THE ONLY REQUIREMENT
You need to be ready to make a change
This isn’t an escape. This isn’t just for rich people.
It’s for people who want to live a life aligned with who they are, not what others expect of them. None of the below are requirements to get started:
A job you hate.
To already be rich.
To want to retire.
To move somewhere cheaper.
To give up the things you like.
To be good at spreadsheets.
To be young.
To have any of it worked out yet.
I had none of it worked out. One day I just decided to get started.
Programs & pricing
Same work. Choose how much of me comes with it.
Every tier is built on the same two programs. The difference is whether you run them alone, bring me your verdict for one sitting, or build the whole thing with me in the room.
Do the work yourself
The Practice
$970once · yours for life
What's included
✓The Numbers - see exactly where your money stands
✓The Life - design what you actually want it to buy
✓The Freedom Model - the dashboard your Numbers work pre-fills, live for good
✓North - it reads everything you enter and answers with your whole picture in mind
✓10× money-back guarantee - full refund if it doesn't deliver
Do the work, then check it with me
The Kitchen Table
$2,100+ VAT · both programs included
What's included
✓The complete Practice program - both courses, everything in the $970 tier
✓Plus ninety minutes one-to-one with Oliver on your finished numbers
✓Your biggest decision, pressure-tested against your real numbers
✓A written second opinion you keep with your report
✓Limited to six sessions a month
Do the whole thing with me
Private Coaching
$8,100+ VAT · by application
What's included
✓Six private 90-minute sessions with Oliver, across three months
✓Your full financial picture and life plan, built together
✓A written plan you keep: the life, the math, your first 90 days
✓Everything in The Practice included, yours for life
✓Four clients per quarter
The calculator at the top of this page showed you what keeping 10% more is worth in years of your life. The program is where you find the 10% - and decide what it's for.
The 10× Promise
Finish the program. Find 10× the price in value. Or get every dollar back.
Do the work, and if you haven't found ten times the price back within a year, email me for a full refund. No interrogation.
The full policy is written out on the refund page.
If you take nothing else from this page, take this. You are probably freer than you think, and the only way to find out is to count.
That costs you nothing. The calculator above is free and it takes about four minutes.
If it turns out you are further along than you assumed, you will want to do something about it. I would like that to be with me. But mostly I would like you to know.
If you want the rest of it, I write most weeks. The frameworks I use with clients and on myself. No sequence, no funnel, leave whenever you like.
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