Early Retirement Extreme

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

Better goal setting with S-curves

Published in May 24th, 2025
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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Can you wait, think, and fast?

Published in May 13th, 2025
Posted by in financial independence, motivation
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A quote that is entirely relevant to financial independence: “His goal attracts him, because he doesn’t let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal. This is what Siddhartha has learned among the Samanas. This is what fools call magic and of which they think it would be effected by means of the daemons. […]

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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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