Early Retirement Extreme

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

My top 5 tips to becoming an extreme early retirement expert

Published in February 8th, 2025
Posted by in Early Retirement, How to, Strategy
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I am not really a big fan of lists of tips of “small actionable steps”. While fun, at least as long as they’re short, I don’t find such lists very helpful(*), mostly because they either list things I’m already doing (turn the light off hen you leave the room) or things that do not apply […]

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The engineering triangle of financial independence

Published in February 4th, 2025
Posted by in Early Retirement, Strategy
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The engineering triangle is a constraint model that says that for any project you wish to design, you can pick any two of the following but only two: cheap, fast, good. It is widely applicable. This means, that if you want cheap and fast, it’s not going to be good. If you want cheap and […]

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Not enjoying life in extreme early retirement?

Published in February 3rd, 2025
Posted by in Early Retirement
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One of the most common objection consumers have to extreme early retirement is that it’s impossible to enjoy life on a low budget and therefore not worthwhile. That spending 75% of the best daylight hours working 9-5 so they can afford to “live a little” for the next 40 years is a better strategy. I’ve […]

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