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+title: Early Retirement Extreme Forums • View topic
+date: 2012-08-14T03:59:24Z
+source: http://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/topic.php?id=2695
+tags: stuff, finance
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+@Ego - As I tried to describe in the book, I believe the world is too random to have goals. Instead the aim is to increase possibilities and resilience. (In more stable eras, having goals and ignoring risk makes sense.) ERE is more "how things turned out" after studying various sources. In particular, I suspect I'm heavily influenced by my personality/temperament. So ERE is an INTJ's view of the following:
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+Early sources were
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+verdant.net (anticonsumerism)
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+peak oil (especially dieoff.org and the running on empty and energyresources yahoo groups)
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+<http://www.relfe.com/plus_5_.html> (reserve banking and what turned me off mortgages)
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+financialsense.com (austrian permabears)
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+dollarstretcher
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+RDPD's Cash flow quadrant (the idea of making money with money)
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+The idea of life-energy from YMOYL (I didn't read the book itself until much later)
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+Ran Prieur
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+I get ideas from lots of different sources and combine them in ways that make sense to me. Sometimes I expand on the ideas too. One thing I use often is analogies, that is, find the fundamental structure behind something, then find something from a different field with a similar structure and then bring ideas from one field to another. Another is to find fundamental dimensions, e.g. something can be scribed by x and y. Then typically three quadrants are well described, but the fourth isn't. Then I use the dimensions to speculate on what the fourth would look like.
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+Most of the organizing was done while I was writing the book. The various laws and observations were developed into a theory.
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