Early Retirement Extreme

— a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, and applied capitalism

Early Retirement Portfolios

Published in April 10th, 2013
Posted by in Finance, Strategy
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As I have mentioned before extreme early retirement (<35) does not happen due to a prudent investment plan. It happens either by following an extreme savings plan or by being lucky (rich uncle, lottery, penny stocks, real estate, …). These reason is that the time it takes to reach financial independence, around 5 years, is [...]

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Magic The Gathering and Lifestyle Design

Published in April 10th, 2013
Posted by in Strategy
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When I was in my late teens, I got sucked into a game called Magic [The Gathering]. I’ll just presume you already have some familiarity with the game. At first I resisted because it seemed to require a lot of money in order to play but soon everybody was playing and so I started too. [...]

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Symptoms and diseases

Published in April 10th, 2013
Posted by in Philosophy, Strategy
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Don’t confuse the two. Don’t mistake the symptom for the disease, that is, don’t mistake the surface problem for the underlying problem. Consider the problem of terrorism. Terrorism is a symptom when a ruler holds the military advantage while oppressing the people. In this case a fraction of the people will fight back and do [...]

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