Early Retirement Extreme

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

Don’t wear sunscreen

Published in August 15th, 2020
Posted by in Early Retirement
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… a tongue in cheek follow up to Wear sunscreen and retire early. Spoken to the tune of “Wear Sunscreen”. If I could give you a single piece of advice. This would be it: Live beyond your means. The long term consequences of living beyond your means have been demonstrated to lead to bankruptcy whereas […]

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Early Retirement Extreme – My story

Published in August 14th, 2020
Posted by in Early Retirement
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I rewrote my FI story (from age 24 to 34 or so) and the first part of the new version is guest posted on Eliminate the Muda! Early Retirement Extreme – Jacob’s Story Early Retirement Extreme – the rest of the story You can read the old version here: How I became financially independent in […]

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Peak oil, the next Kondratiev cycle, generational turnings, and ERE

Published in August 13th, 2020
Posted by in Early Retirement, Strategy
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If you’ve read practically all my posts and all the forum posts as well, you’re probably aware of the fact that one of the early catalysts for my own trajectory to what became ERE was my discovery of peak oil(*) in 2001. (I attribute the other two catalysts to the idea of anticonsumerism and fractional […]

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