Early Retirement Extreme

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

Fall 2010 update

Published in November 9th, 2010
Posted by in Book, Personal, Timely
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I’ve been taking a little bit of a blogging/forum break lately—I’ve been busy reading and recharging my batteries from all the writing and editing that went down lately. In other news, I built a gas manometer for about $12 worth of parts from Home Depot. It works. It beats buying a $139 commercial model. If […]

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How democracy works

Published in October 31st, 2010
Posted by in Personal
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In this post I’m not going to use political euphemisms. I am going to name people or groups of people according to their function rather than what the name implies. My goal is not to join any particular group as much as it is to remain independent and unaffected by this game. There are four […]

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What I have learned about book publishing

Published in October 26th, 2010
Posted by in Book, Personal
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There are a lot of popular misconceptions about book publishing. I think these are not so much due to not understanding the process but more in terms of understanding the magnitudes of the numbers involved. Disclaimer: I may even get some of the numbers below wrong! In the US alone, more than 200,000 books are […]

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