Early Retirement Extreme

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

Two possible projects for the next five years

Published in April 20th, 2010
Posted by in Early Retirement, Personal
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In the past 10 years I have completed three large projects. A masters thesis in nuclear physics of 200 pages (130+ of them tables) with its associated publications. A PhD dissertation in computational astrophysics of 91 pages and its associated publications. A book of 230 pages about ERE(*). (*) I’m still working on my one […]

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Three payment mindsets

Published in April 16th, 2010
Posted by in Early Retirement, Finance, Personal, Work
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I think there are three—knowing full well that some clever person will point out a fourth in the comments—mindsets that govern the spending of money. These are so different that I think they can be considered paradigms and thus they require an epiphany to get out of. The debtor mindset focuses on paying the bills, […]

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Money is only (part of) the means to an end

Published in April 13th, 2010
Posted by in Finance, Personal, Philosophy
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Captain Obvious here speaking! I think it hasn’t been properly realized and internalized that money is not the end, but rather the means to an end such as happiness, health, and satisfaction. If money and stuff turns into an end, all you have become is a materialist. Not the good kind of materialist either, that […]

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