Early Retirement Extreme

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Do I think Asian? Do you?

Published in September 23rd, 2020
Posted by in Strategy
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Maybe I do? During my wild youth, I spent four years trying to solve some deeply fascinating (to me, at the time) questions in field of astrophysics. I was trying to figure out exactly how a plasma of protons and alpha particles (fully ionized hydrogen and helium) ignited under the immense pressures that obtained from […]

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First impressions count — fitting square pegs into round holes

Published in September 23rd, 2020
Posted by in Philosophy
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I’m still amused by a comment about Early Retirement Extreme I just read on reddit. Granted reddit is the archetypical site of the “tl;dr, but have opinion anyway”. Perhaps this is why the comment was so funny. On the other hand, it also shows the challenge of this site to enlighten the public opinion to […]

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In praise of idleness

Published in September 22nd, 2020
Posted by in Early Retirement, Work
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While I think of something interesting to write, you may want to spend some idle time reading this essay by Bertrand Russell. Do you still remember how to be idle? Or are you always focusing on how to be more productive (see the comments on this post)? Originally posted 2010-01-28 01:07:50.

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