Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence

In a world of abundance, delayed gratification is the optimal strategy. Genetically, there's a preference for the former, which means that a mature person with a measure of self-control has an advantage, being able to wait for bargains. It also means if you have patience and don't depend on speed, there are fewer costs to be paid for the additional

the difference between a heterotelic and a homeotelic response in a world that only has two possible goals. The homeotelic response moves closer to both goals whereas the heterotelic response, while moving further towards goal-1, actually moves away from goal-2.

Not that there's anything wrong with such creative outlets, but the scale of these "projects" is often mind-boggling, with tens of thousands being spent on marginal increases in functionality.

For our modern purposes, the fields can perhaps be grouped into seven generic fields--physiological, economical, intellectual, emotional, social, technical, and ecological.

The purpose of education, living, interacting, and growing as a person should be to increase complexity--that is, to progress through the stages from copying to creating as described in Gauging mastery. Without this progression, the brain is overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of facts, stuff, relations, appointments, etc. If information is simply ac

It's important to understand that doing the right thing (good strategy) is much more important than doing things right (good tactics).

seems to be a tragicomic fact that every time-saving invention is immediately canceled out by an increase in activity or a change of behavior.

This endless working and paying is called "making a living," yet people are so busy "making a living" that they have no time for living. A wage slave is a person who is not only economically bound by mortgages, loans, and other obligations, but also mentally bound by an inability to perceive that there are other options availabl

The world that we live in is the aggregate sum of the individual behavior of all of us. "They" are not responsible for our world. We are! You are!