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Would You Sell Your Freedom for a Quarter Million Euros?
My New Year’s oracle had told me so: In 2012, my finances would finally get sorted out. Big cash was on the way! A couple of days later, the prophecy became palpable: I got a call from a dear friend...
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The Digital Boheme
If you ask Holm Friebe and Sascha Lobo, the digital Boheme can be found sipping caramel macchiatos at your local Starbucks. Instead of cudgeling their brains about how to make a living with their art,...
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Start to Care
Interesting thought by Ran Prieur on social class in the future:1 Social class will no longer be about power or even standard of living, but valuable activity. The upper class will hold the few...
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What will you bring?
Over the last few months, I probably spent too much time at nursing homes. I finally understood why my grandmother had always been so reluctant to go there, as even the best of these places are...
View ArticleHow to Live 100 Years
Psst, today is Beyond Rules Day! Go to Amazon and grab a free copy of my first book! (Details at the bottom of this post.) Here’s the story of a lung cancer patient who was given six months to live and...
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Play Some Buzkashi
[This is my fourth Moderate Proposal for Daunting, Delightful and Dilettantish Deeds to Pursue in 2014. See the introduction, part 1, part 2 and part 3.] I’m an idler. Sometimes, I prefer staying in...
View ArticleImprove My Asset Management
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”...
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What You Can Learn from a Wild Donkey
When the Spaniards reached the highlands of the Atacama, they brought some donkeys along to carry their arms and supplies. As it turned out, though, the donkeys wouldn’t really perform that well under...
View Article“Everything I do is a joy. And that’s the way it’s oughta be.”
I wanted to live like a hermit, but also make it really cool. Like the coolest kid fort you have ever seen. So while we’re all going crazy about the new iPhone, here’s a guy who lives in a kind of...
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