Early Retirement Extreme

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

Using the Crowbar Maneuver to get cash fast

Published in February 14th, 2023
Posted by in motivation
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I have a guest post on how to Save money with a DVD exchange over at Tight Fisted Miser. If you clicked in from over there, welcome to my blog. Please consider subscribing as you will find that we cover many of the same things. Not made of money had a post on how to […]

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Better goal setting with S-curves

Published in February 5th, 2023
Posted by in motivation, Work
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One popular psychological strategy is to set small goals or start slowly. This strategy usually fails from the lack of meaningful progress despite having achieved several small goals(*). There is a good reason for this. The S-curve or logistic function is a useful model for understanding why this strategy rarely brings the intended results. DW […]

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You are not irreplaceable

Published in December 21st, 2022
Posted by in Blogging, culture, motivation
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According to google I am now the second highest ranked authority on extreme early retirement. I suppose this comes about because I have a “google ranking” of 4 which again comes about because I have yet to bother with monetizing this site as it would require advertising it in the local paper for 4 weeks […]

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