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The danger of outgrowing your lifestyle

Published in February 27th, 2024
Posted by in Early Retirement, Strategy, Work
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I have mostly seen this within the context of backpacking, which in this modern age is known as “incredibly awesome minimalist traveling” or something, and institutionalized education. It is a surmountable problem which comes from the fact that most people treat these lifestyles, the traveling lifestyle and the student lifestyle as phases. Anyone who repeats […]

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One man’s meat is another man’s poison

Published in February 24th, 2024
Posted by in Work
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Ha! You probably thought this was about vegetarianism, but it isn’t. I recently got a pingback from a Brazen Careerist post on her opinion on bad job advice lobbing me in with the baby boomers. Crickey! I thought I was older than that. Actually, I’m only 33 and so at the edge between Generations X […]

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Democracy, Hollingworth, and the ingenuity gap

Published in February 24th, 2024
Posted by in Philosophy
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Hollingworth’s research in intelligence showed that the communications range from one person to another extends about two standard deviations(*) of IQ(**) points. [Suddenly certain communications barriers you may have make perfect sense, no? 😀 ] (*) Note that discussions on IQ rarely mentions which standard deviation is used which of course makes the number almost […]

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