Early Retirement Extreme

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Reality is better

Published in February 21st, 2025
Posted by in Early Retirement, Work
51 Comments

I think it was my wife who said that sailing is like a theme park ride without the theme park. This happened in a discussion about me not liking rides or something to that effect. I think we’re both right in the sense that I very much like rides, but I prefer my rides to […]

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Angry people, insults, frugal lifestyles, and the poor

Published in February 18th, 2025
Posted by in Philosophy, Work
63 Comments

Disclaimer: Regular readers know that I’m no stickler for political correctness. I won’t say “he or she” or use other literary tongue-twister to point out what should be obvious. I won’t say “challenged” instead of “lacking”. I won’t say “developing” instead of “undeveloped”. I won’t point out obvious things like nearly every rule has exceptions. […]

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Gresham’s law of content, tipping content providers, and providing a better compensation model for the internet

Published in February 16th, 2025
Posted by in Work
67 Comments

In my opinion, the internet is the greatest invention of the last 50 years. It has provided everybody with nearly unlimited access to free information and it is pretty hard for me to make the case that the internet hasn’t benefited me far more than I have ever paid for its services. Without the internet, […]

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