Saturday Roundup - ecological freelance edition

Published in March 8th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, ecological footprint

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’m off to another training session for my new job. I’m fairly excited about it because it’s a job that gives an immediate feeling of accomplishment and because of the time-control it offers. Now I discovered that it also [...]

Why I hate eating out

Published in March 7th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in Personal, Philosophy

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You may be surprised to know that paying $10 for a $2 meal is not my biggest problem with eating out. Rather it’s the abundance of choices on the menu. I don’t like choices. Why do I have to spend time reading a 10 page booklet to decide what to eat? If I go out [...]

Fit Dad Fat Dad

Published in March 6th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in Health

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The title of this post is “Fit Dad Fat Dad” partially in honor of Rich Dad Poor Dad and partially to stir up some controversy in exactly the same way as RDPD does.
RDPD has a fairly poor reputation amongst pf bloggers. I think the reason is that it questions widely held beliefs on personal [...]

Why do so many people hoard so much?

Published in March 5th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in Philosophy

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In a comment, Hannah wrote:
I have to wonder: Is the inability to value one’s time (rather than hyper-accumulating Things) simply an inability to accept one’s inevitable departure from this world? Do people who have an acquisitive mentality towards life have an inherent denial of death, and thus seek to “escape” into their goods, which are [...]

Is “cheap” the new “green”?

Published in March 4th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in Personal, Philosophy

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I just read an interesting post from Escape the cube asking whether we are part of a trend where “cheap” is the new “green”. My guess is a qualified yes. It is a co-opted kind of “cheap” that might be popular for a few years after which it will be replaced by another commercialized version [...]

The Early Retirement Path

Published in March 3rd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in Early Retirement

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In this guest post Tim from Canadian Dream: Free at 45 shares his path to early retirement at 45. If you like to read more about the road to early retirement you can subscribe to his RSS Feed here.
I like to think of myself as fairly ordinary. To outsiders I seem to fit [...]

My favorite writings of February 2008

Published in March 2nd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, ecological footprint

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It is interesting how valuation is sometimes determined by things other than value. For instance, if a reader agrees with an author the reader will say that the post is well written and vice-a-versa (*). So with that in mind (given that I like myself), here are my favorite posts for February 2008, hmmm [...]

Saturday Roundup - This page intentionally left blank edition

Published in March 1st, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements

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Currently I am in training as freelance editor for an academic publisher. In addition the spring season of the adult league is commencing, so now I play hockey three times a week. Therefore I need to reclaim some time over the weekends and thus there will no longer be any regular posts during the weekend [...]

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