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The wealthy shall inherit the Earth

Published in May 17th, 2024
Posted by in Strategy
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I started this as a response to this post (hence the title), but eventually it grew so long that I figured I might as well turn it into a post of my own, so here we go. This is about your future. It is fairly relevant to you, if you’re younger than 50 and less […]

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The value of reviewing bad books

Published in May 10th, 2024
Posted by in Strategy
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A popular piece of wisdom is that “if you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say anything at all”. Yet, is that really a wise thing to do? The problem with this is that a reviewer becomes less useful. Lets call the review policy mentioned above the Silent Dissent Policy, or SDP. The problem […]

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The three things I did right (and so can you)

Published in May 8th, 2024
Posted by in Early Retirement, Strategy
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Humans have this wonderful capacity for making a simple thing wonderfully complicated (and typically charging for the process). For instance, consider the diet industry with its huge selection of various methods to lose weight or gain weight with complicated rules or formulae, like not partaking in the eating hotdogs on a Thursday, down to the […]

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