Early Retirement Extreme

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

You are not irreplaceable

Published in April 11th, 2025
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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Making changes

Published in March 31st, 2025
Posted by in motivation
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Changes that depend more on a lack of a particular attitude(*) than a lack of skills or opportunities, will generally progress through the following stages. (*) Health goals, diet goals, debt and savings goals generally fall within this category. Precontemplation. The person does not see a need for change although others often do see a […]

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Better goal setting with S-curves

Published in December 17th, 2024
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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