Early Retirement Extreme

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

Back to reality

Published in September 29th, 2009
Posted by in Personal, Philosophy, Work
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I have been thinking whether there is not some direct _inverse_ correlation between how easy it is to differentiate skillful interaction with reality and the emphasis on form like degrees, dress code, speech code, and other form of behavioral codes. I think it can be fairly stated that the more difficult it is to tell […]

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No stress, I’m going sailing again today

Published in September 28th, 2009
Posted by in Early Retirement, Personal
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After suggesting it yesterday evening, we decided to go sailing today. Why not? There’s no worrying about crossover points, 401ks, or so-called passive income, or about how to be awesome or extreme or productive or whatever, or about resumes, how to kick ass, keep up, or how to tread water in quicksand and figure out […]

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Sailing weekend

Published in September 27th, 2009
Posted by in Early Retirement, Personal
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Yesterday I went sailing with M_, D_, and M_ on his Olson 40. It kinda looked like this video (same type of boat, same area, not as fast, different people). We sailed into the SF bay passing through a race with sailboats coming on our port (left) side with spinnakers (big balloon like sails) set. […]

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