Reinventing yourself

Published in May 10th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I get a couple of mails a week from people in the same situation as me (enough money, what to do now?) and it strikes me that most people(*) pursue a “the grass is greener” strategy when it comes [...]

Endurance events

Published in May 5th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in Health

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One possible way of spending retirement is to enroll in marathons, ironmen (or is that ironmans?), ultracycling, etc. all over the country or planet depending on ambition. Last Sunday I completed my first century (actually it turned into 123 miles (197km) since I took a wrong turn at some point) which was quite fun [...]

The opportunity cost of early retirement

Published in May 3rd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in Early Retirement, Strategy

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Adolescents have a sense of die-hard immortality that comes from having given no thought to their future. I realized that I wasn’t immortal when I was 21-22. This implied the full realization that my life span was finite although I hadn’t yet reached the sense of time that I have not that “old” people frequently [...]

New schedule

Published in May 2nd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, blogging

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In order to keep the content interesting and novel, I’ll be moving from a 5+1 posts a week to a more or less random schedule. Ahh, the luxury of a noncommercial blog

My favorite writings of April 2008 - including ecological budget

Published in May 1st, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, ecological footprint

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A better way of “growing” in a limited world is to increase quality. Make things better fitting, smaller, and more efficient instead of just making them bigger and more powerful. With that in mind, here are the best posts of April 2008.

Making changes

Row, row, row your boat — On the law of comparative advantage

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