Early Retirement Extreme

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Simple personality types and their behavior

Published in January 4th, 2025
Posted by in Philosophy, Strategy
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Many interpersonal misunderstandings originate in parties not having the same goal of the discussion. I do not wish to go into detail of which underlying psychological motivation e.g. ego that drives these goals, but it is certainly noticeable that if two people do not have exactly the same goal, at least one party will inevitably […]

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It was me …

Published in January 4th, 2025
Posted by in How to
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I started leaving some magazines (Businessweek, Outside, Bon Appetit), in the laundry room and lo and behold, at least one other person picked up on the idea and started leaving magazines as well, so now I have access to National Geographic. Next, I’ll try leaving some CDs and see what happens. If you decide to […]

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Are you suffering from careerism?

Published in January 3rd, 2025
Posted by in Work
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Careerism is the idea of concentrating your “being the best you can be” efforts on your workplace or work activities, your work setting. Careerism is fairly wide spread along with its modern sibling consumerism which is the idea that satisfaction in life is best obtained from buying stuff and services. Together they compliment each other […]

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