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Don’t wear sunscreen

Published in May 31st, 2024
Posted by in Early Retirement
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… a tongue in cheek follow up to Wear sunscreen and retire early. Spoken to the tune of “Wear Sunscreen”. If I could give you a single piece of advice. This would be it: Live beyond your means. The long term consequences of living beyond your means have been demonstrated to lead to bankruptcy whereas […]

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Build a worm composting system

Published in May 30th, 2024
Posted by in How to
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In an effort to reduce the outgoing mass of garbage, this being a good proxy for measuring ecologic inefficiency and by implication, economic inefficiency, I have built a worm composting system out of two plastic totes. I essentially followed the instructions I found on a website. The two grey 10 gallon totes were $3.50 each […]

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Business models vs business philosophies

Published in May 26th, 2024
Posted by in Philosophy
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This is a response to a post on ribbonfarm regarding the difference between business models and business philosophies. As far as I understand, in that post “business model” is defined within the context of the reigning, dominant, and almost completely pervasive “business philosophy” of using money (third party transaction) as an intermediate for any kind […]

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