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The danger of outgrowing your lifestyle

Published in March 16th, 2025
Posted by in Early Retirement, Strategy, Work
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I have mostly seen this within the context of backpacking, which in this modern age is known as “incredibly awesome minimalist traveling” or something, and institutionalized education. It is a surmountable problem which comes from the fact that most people treat these lifestyles, the traveling lifestyle and the student lifestyle as phases. Anyone who repeats […]

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The world is like a box of Lego

Published in March 15th, 2025
Posted by in Early Retirement, Strategy, Work
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When I was a kid, Legos where my favorite toy. When I got a new box, I would first follow the instructions, and then take it apart and add the Legos to my general collection (sorted in colors). I would then build different things. This seemed to somewhat of a special talent. Not everybody did […]

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The rise and decline of the American middle class

Published in March 12th, 2025
Posted by in Work
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The article, The Coming Fury of an Angry America (via @mymoneyshrugged), explains the predicament of the middle class very well. This further strengthens my resolve not to join the middle class. In my opinion, the middle class has as its fundamental core problem the issue of willingly becoming a single cog in a machine it […]

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