Early Retirement Extreme

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Thoughts on blogging, popularity, and history

Published in December 24th, 2024
Posted by in culture
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One of my early writings on How I became financially independent in 5 years got “stumbled upon” a couple of days agoshortly after I started blogging and I got my 15 minutes of fame. Well, actually a few days of fame. I am fairly sure that the story above has now been read by far […]

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How I learned to stop worrying and love the “end of the world”

Published in December 23rd, 2024
Posted by in Philosophy, Strategy
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Long ago I used to believe in eternal human progress. I believed in the singularity. I believed that the future would eventually look something like Startrek. When I was 24 that got turned upside down. I’m not going to repeat all the arguments for the triad of overpopulation, climate change, and resource depletion here. Others […]

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It is not the supreme court, it is you …

Published in December 23rd, 2024
Posted by in Strategy
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The recent supreme court decision sure riled up a lot of people, but answer me this. Presuming that voters rationally make up their mind, does it not stand to reason that… If you do not like that corporations now contribute to the advertising campaigns of politicians, are you not free to not vote for the […]

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