Early Retirement Extreme

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

Dealing with well-intended advice

Published in March 30th, 2023
Posted by in Early Retirement
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From a consumer and even from a gross domestic product perspective owning a lot of products or things may indicate success. However, from a financially free/independent or an ecological/sustainable perspective, owning a lot of products indicates only one thing: failure. Conversely, friends and family will most likely look at a skill-based lifestyle with some suspicion. […]

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Building a publishing empire

Published in March 29th, 2023
Posted by in Strategy, Work
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Note: This is a repost of a post from 2009 or so. It’s interest how all of this still holds. I ultimately found a solution with createspace for the paperback and kindle for the ebook. This was the semi-easiest solution because they’d do roughly half the publishing work. It’s technical, but to put it in […]

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On search engines, optimization, and backlinks

Published in March 29th, 2023
Posted by in Blogging
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One problem with the backlink approach [of SEO] is that it confuses popularity with authority. Read this post about backlinks to see what they are. If the goal of search engines was to find the most popular sites, page ranking works excellently. If the goal is to find the most authoritive, page ranking does not […]

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