If my writings have helped you, the best thing you can do is to pay it forward by walking the talk or spreading the word. If you really want to do something directly, writing a review of the blog here would be much appreciated. Also, you can vote for me in the 2009 Plutus [...]

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The primary reason I write this blog is outreach and one of the methods of measuring outreach is alexa rankings. However, since alexa ONLY measures the web activity of people, who use the alexa toolbar, and since those people tend to be webmasters, and since earlyretirementextreme.com is apparently not read by a whole lot of [...]

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Some strategies for discovering things that go unnoticed would involve ignoring the “junk mail” and go to the (usually smaller) shops in the side streets. These often offer better deals because they do not sell low margin junk and compensate for it by volume and advertising like the mass stores. Yesterday I alluded to the [...]

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As you know, the comments is often where the real action takes place. Due to popular request, it is, therefore, now possible to subscribe to ALL the comments as a single RSS feed. This feed is updated with new comments as they get in. Thus if you never want to miss a comment on any [...]

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When someone posts a link to earlyretirementextreme.com, wordpress usually picks up a backlink which I usually delete since it is usually always spammers. However, I also enjoy what one could call backstalking, that is, watching the refering link on sitemeter when someone actually clicked into the blog. This mostly leads back to an interesting/relevant blog [...]

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I do not recall anyone having ever informed me that they disagree with me on some issue and that they therefore will unsubscribe from my blog(*). Yet, it is something I see from time to time on large blogs.
(*) Perhaps my blog is too small.
It seems that there is a common sentiment or perhaps [...]

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You probably want to start with the post on myths and the future and then look through my two lists of “best” posts.
In case you’re interested, I used to be active in the peak oil community, mainly in the energyresources and running on empty1/2 groups. I was also the webmaster on dieoff.org once [...]

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Here is a selection of blogs that I recently added to my reader. I usually find myself subscribing to “small” blogs, maybe by virtue of seeking out the unconventional and contrarian, it naturally precludes any blog that is or becomes popular—or maybe it’s just me and my contrarian ways of not being able to relate [...]

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You can find a similar list for 2008 here. To see the best of 2007 which is really only December, just look through that month. There are some good ones in there too.
January
Let me know which topics you would like to see in the future
Day 14: Investing for early retirement – Part 1
What is freedom?
A [...]

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Please rank accordingly, like, type 5,6,2,3,4,1 in the comments or something like that. That way I can run some statistics.

Specific how to – articles, like fixing my bicycle, recipes, etc.
General how to – articles that specifies different ways of doing things like owning less stuff.
Motivational rants, e.g. “This is how great your [...]

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