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Guest post: War resistance through taxes and frugality

Published in May 3rd, 2025
Posted by in Philosophy, Strategy
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This is a guest post from David Gross who blogs about tax resistance, frugality, ethics, and other such issues at his blog, The Picket Line. If you want to learn more about his tax resistance tactics, read the FAQ or check out his How-To Guide to learn how you can do it too. Regardless of […]

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Building a publishing empire

Published in May 1st, 2025
Posted by in Strategy, Work
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Note: This is a repost of a post from 2009 or so. It’s interest how all of this still holds. I ultimately found a solution with createspace for the paperback and kindle for the ebook. This was the semi-easiest solution because they’d do roughly half the publishing work. It’s technical, but to put it in […]

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Four requirements for change

Published in April 29th, 2025
Posted by in Early Retirement, Philosophy, Strategy
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The major requirements for a person or an organization to change can be summarized with the following formula D * V * P > C Here, D is the dissatisfaction with your current position, V is the vision of the new position, P is the plan, and C is the cost of changing. Incidentally, I […]

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