Early Retirement Extreme

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

The survival podcast on consumerism

Published in September 28th, 2011
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Today’s episode of The Survival Podcast discusses consumerism and how companies are intentionally designing products to be faddish and break down in order to maximize profit. He also mentions the ERE book in the beginning. For those who are coming over from from the podcast, let me say that the kind of everyday-survivalism Jack talks […]

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Twitter interview #3, call for questions

Published in September 20th, 2011
Posted by in Announcements, Timely
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In the past, I’ve held a couple of rather successful “twitter style” interviews. The rule of the game is that you can ask me one question in 140 characters, or to make it easy, let’s just say you only have one sentence or 30 words to ask it. Ask your questions in the comments below. […]

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New York City Meetup, November 2011

Published in September 18th, 2011
Posted by in Announcements, Timely
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Please respond in the comments here or directly on the forum thread if you can make it. Head counts are very useful! Time and place are yet to be determined. Use doodle to vote on your preferred date. There will be more information in the forum thread, so check back until they’re announced. Also, don’t […]

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