Early Retirement Extreme

Financial independence, frugality, self-sufficiency, ecology, capitalism, and voluntary simplicity

Most people …

Published in September 10th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Most people have been told
what to think and what to think about,
Most people have been rewarded by focusing on
what they have been told to focus on.
Most people, therefore, are not curious.
Most people are told
what to do and get rewarded [...]

You are not irreplaceable

Published in May 27th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in blogging, culture, motivation

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According to google I am now the second highest ranked authority on extreme early retirement. I suppose this comes about because I have a “google ranking” of 4 which again comes about because I have yet to bother with monetizing this site as it would require advertising it in the local paper for 4 weeks [...]

The vehicle dependent mindset

Published in May 26th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in culture

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I am convinced we could live without a car. Granted, there are certain conveniences we would have to go without, but having given it some thought, I think going without a car would not be an unsolvable problem.
Reading a post on AL6400 about the vehicle lifestyle got me thinking. I don’t think it’s a lifestyle [...]

A modest prediction for the next 20 years

Published in March 28th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in culture, economy

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Predicting the future always provides an excellent opportunity to make a fool out of oneself. One is almost destined to be wrong on some part or the other. If nothing else, the timing might be off, or the details may not be exactly right.
I have noted that whereas pre-1980 predictions mostly envisioned the future as [...]

Saturday Roundup and Carnivals - the class society edition

Published in February 23rd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, culture

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I found a New York Times article on to measure your relative position in prestige, education, income and wealth. Sounds fun so here are my numbers.

Occupation: 82th percentile. This is based on a survey of what random people in America thinks is the most prestigious. For someone that frequently get blank stares when I [...]

Thoughts on blogging, popularity, and history

Published in January 16th, 2008

Posted by Jacob 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 ago 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 more people in two [...]