Why not see if you can present at the TED Conference? http://www.ted.com

@whoa – I wonder how one swings something like a TED talk. I presume they have some impressive gatekeepers. Also, they wouldn’t be the first place I wanted to present this one; not that the size of the audience matters. I’ve given talks to crowds between 5 and 300 people and found that numbers really don’t matter.

@Kevin M – I got a list of bloggers. I’m currently busy writing a larger piece for The Idler (Deadline Nov 1st)

What about smaller “TedX” talks that pop up around the country? Perhaps you could get in on that.

http://www.ted.com/tedx

youtube channel? podcast? itunes?

Please don’t dumb it down! That’s what we’re really talking about, right? “Popularizing” = “dumbing down.” The ERE approach has certain inherent characteristics that make it suitable only for that small minority of people who are smart and disciplined enough to make it work. If you can’t get through a 200-page book with some big words and a little bit of math in it, you probably lack the discipline to retire extremely early too. In short, its virtue might lie precisely with its “unpopularity” or rather “unpopulism.” Lazy, impatient people who are bad at math (seemingly the majority of people) will continue to be slaves. Until perhaps some of them are ready, in which case they’ll be ready for the book too.

@chris – Yes and no. I have changed my philosophy a couple of times. Here’s the background http://earlyretirementextreme.com/startup-curriculum-for-finance-economics-investing.html
It’s actually by reading books from different people (those in the link are general background) that I have come to realize that different people differ in what they’ll prefer and how they’ll execute.

In fact: Teach the same lesson to 10 different people, and they’ll learn 10 different things from it and go out and execute it in 10 different ways.

I also find that you preferred strategy depends on your history, your experience, your goal (accumulation/income), whether you have earned income, and how much money you have.

Hello Jacob

I bought and read “Your Money or your Life” while waiting for your book to arrive.

I was quite charmed by the program itself, much less with the typically feminin narrative style, filling the book with empty words and meaningless stories.

Trying to download a spreadsheet for the “Monthly Tabulation” I came across the http://www.financialintegrity.org site which provides all the same information as the book, without the useless page filling.

This comes as a pdf which can be downloaded COMPLETELY FREE.

http://www.financialintegrity.org/index.php?title=Downloadable_Guides

While you are always in to save your readers a few dollars, here’s another tip that could have saved me 15. I would have preferred using those for a donation to you had I known…

@Jacob

I hope you didn’t misunderstand that I prefer YMOYL over your book, Amazon.fr just informed that they’ve put it in the mail box for me, I’m enthousiastically looking forward to it.

I simply prefer the free download on financial integrity over YMOYL, and not only because it is free. YMOYL contains a lot of clutter imho.