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- Wed Oct 05, 2016 5:55 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: I'm free
- Replies: 69
- Views: 32089
Re: I'm free
Yesterday I had a pretty surreal experience. I got a big bonus and the best performance review of my life--glowing, all positive, no negatives at all... And then I was fired. It was quite a shock. I tallied up the finances and realized that with only a little bit of belt-tightening, I've already ac...
- Tue Apr 12, 2016 12:09 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 24472
Re: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
Although the giveaway is over as Dualstow says, I'm still happy to give review copies in kindle format for those interested in reviewing it on Amazon. If you would like a review copy, send me your email in a private message.sixdollars wrote: Just curious, is the free copy still available?
- Tue Apr 12, 2016 9:25 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 24472
Re: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
Thanks Mountaineer and Gabe!
- Sat Apr 09, 2016 1:27 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 24472
Re: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
One more plug for Jake here ... if you haven't already, check out his podcasts on http://www.thevoluntarylife.com/. There's some great material out there. I've become a bit addicted to the podcasts this past week, listening to them during my commute. Jake's vocal style is guaranteed to ...
- Sat Apr 09, 2016 5:01 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 24472
Re: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
You can read it in ePub form using Calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com Or convert it to PDF with this doohickey: http://www.ebook-converter.com/kindle-pc-converter.htm Hello PS, unfortunately I was not able to find a way to read it online. Would you be so kind to send it to me as PDF? Thank you Pleee...
- Tue Apr 05, 2016 2:57 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 24472
Re: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
Jake, thanks for the book! I read it yesterday in one sitting. I found it very interesting and helpful. I still don't completely understand the "unjobbing" option real well, but the other choices all made a lot of sense. It was well written and fun to read. Thanks Desert, that's great...
- Sat Apr 02, 2016 10:23 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 24472
Re: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
Today is your last chance to download the book for free! http://getbook.at/jobfree
- Wed Mar 30, 2016 1:19 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: How Many Items of Clothing do Nomads Own?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 13142
Re: How Many Items of Clothing do Nomads Own?
I'm not a digital nomad, but I only have two pairs of pants as well, and seven T-shirts all of the exact same brand (Hanes Tagless) that lasted the longest in a test of many different brands. Enough underwear and socks to last a week, with the socks all being identical Darn Tough socks. Reading abo...
- Wed Mar 30, 2016 1:03 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: How Many Items of Clothing do Nomads Own?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 13142
Re: How Many Items of Clothing do Nomads Own?
3 Sets of Black Silk Boxers 3 Pairs of copper fiber (anti-microbial) socks 1 Pair of Black 501 Levis 1 Black nylon narrow zippered money belt / dress belt. 1 Pair of Linen tropical/resort pants 2 Dress shirts 1 Underarmour T-shirt 1 Merino wool sweater 1 Pair of short pants/swim suit 1 Pair of shoe...
- Wed Mar 30, 2016 9:37 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: How Many Items of Clothing do Nomads Own?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 13142
Re: How Many Items of Clothing do Nomads Own?
We've got some permanent nomads here, Mark & Jake. I'm curious- how many outfits do you gentleman travel with? And if I may ask, Jake, does your wife carry that many more outfits than you? I met a National Geographic guide on a tour who said he had all his possessions down to two backpacks. I h...
- Wed Mar 30, 2016 5:15 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 24472
Re: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
Hey guys, I made it to #1 on Amazon UK's Best Seller list in Personal Finance
- Wed Mar 30, 2016 3:57 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 24472
Re: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
Jake, Skimmed through most quickly, will read more in depth later. I liked the personal stories. My personal story is I always leaned toward the startup angle, with the big potential payoff of stock options, etc. Followed closely by living very frugally. Let me preface this by saying I am almost ...
- Wed Mar 30, 2016 3:55 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 24472
Re: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
Oh fabulous! But... the Kindle Store on Amazon.co.uk is for UK customers only. To shop for titles available for your country, please visit Amazon.com. Can you help me ? Thank you. The link http://getbook.at/jobfree should automatically redirect you to your local Amazon site based on your IP address...
- Tue Mar 29, 2016 6:47 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 24472
Re: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
In order to get your free copy, please ignore the Kindle Unlimited link and instead click to "buy" the book (for $0). That should give you the book free of charge.
Amazon makes it very confusing because they are always trying to promote Kindle Unlimited.
Amazon makes it very confusing because they are always trying to promote Kindle Unlimited.
- Tue Mar 29, 2016 3:39 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 24472
Free copy of my book (featuring PP)
I am giving away my latest book free on Amazon for the next few days only. It's called Job Free: Four Ways to Quit the Rat Race and Achieve Financial Freedom on Your Terms. It includes discussion of the permanent portfolio. Many members of the PP forum provided valuable feedback on the draft. Please...
- Thu Mar 24, 2016 12:50 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Are people radicalized by hostile foreign policy actions initiated against them?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8671
Re: Are people radicalized by hostile foreign policy actions initiated against them?
I think the real meaning of the question in the OP is obfuscated by jargon language like "radicalized" and "hostile foreign policy actions". A less foggy way of posing the question would be: Does murdering people in foreign lands lead to some people there becoming more violent/ag...
- Mon Mar 21, 2016 9:15 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: New all-time high
- Replies: 30
- Views: 18332
Re: New all-time high
Ha, thanks! Currently in my mid forties, so if I go to the doctor, they don't try to fix anything anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzEhoyXpqzQdualstow wrote: You sound really young in your podcasts. I thought you were in your twenties or early thirties.
- Mon Mar 21, 2016 5:47 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: New all-time high
- Replies: 30
- Views: 18332
Re: New all-time high
I also just hit an all time high on nominal value, but I then calculated past years in constant prices and found that my all time real high was 2011. Boo. My portfolio is in pound sterling and was affected by some non-PP transactions, so your results may be different. The key thing is that I'm in th...
- Wed Mar 02, 2016 12:24 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Harry Browne's influences
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3035
Harry Browne's influences
I found an interesting quote by Harry Browne regarding his influences: "A number of people have contributed to my economic education over the years, but probably the three most important influences were Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Henry Hazlitt." (from "Why the Best-Laid In...
- Fri Feb 05, 2016 9:41 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Madoff
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4589
Re: Madoff
The documentary Chasing Madoff http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1636849/ is well worth watching. I had to ignore the stupid "film noir" style of the documentary, which I found highly pretentious and irritating. However, the interviews with the people involved are so fascinating that it is worth...
- Mon Jan 25, 2016 11:12 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Greed is Good (Fodder for a broad discussion of economics :))
- Replies: 308
- Views: 73475
Re: Greed is Good (Fodder for a broad discussion of economics :))
The minimum wage started as a policy of the eugenics movement: "“Progressive economists, like their neoclassical critics,” Leonard explains, “believed that binding minimum wages would cause job losses. However, the progressive economists also believed that the job loss induced by minimum wages ...
- Sun Jan 24, 2016 10:11 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Greed is Good (Fodder for a broad discussion of economics :))
- Replies: 308
- Views: 73475
Re: Greed is Good (Fodder for a broad discussion of economics :))
That's a highly ideological view, and the studies I've seen don't support it. What they seem to show is a very small reduction in jobs, and many other gains for those at the bottom of the socio-economic scale, and also for those above that, as the folks at the bottom spend more of their money, whi...
- Sun Jan 24, 2016 9:12 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: A little bit about the transnational elite
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7557
Re: A little bit about the transnational elite
here's how to spot a transnational elite: - Lives in a city you've heard of - Frequent foreign travel, usually to other cities you've heard of - Other people seem to pay for a lot of their goodies - They (ostensibly) produce or contribute to the production of knowledge, not goods or services - What...
- Tue Dec 22, 2015 8:15 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Seeking beta-readers for my new book which includes discussion of the PP
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6398
Re: Seeking beta-readers for my new book which includes discussion of the PP
congrats jake! Can you send a link to the book? I'd like to put it on my reading list! Thanks WiseOne! Here is a link http://getbook.at/jobfree I had some brilliant feedback from the people on this discussion board, following the original request I made on this thread. If anyone on the PP board is...
- Tue Dec 22, 2015 8:10 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Seeking beta-readers for my new book which includes discussion of the PP
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6398
Re: Seeking beta-readers for my new book which includes discussion of the PP
Jake, Congratulations on the public release of your new book. I finished reading it this morning. Like all of your work, it is wonderfully researched, complete and useful. I also like the way your writing style is evolving. In particular, the first chapter introducing your friend Peter seemed v...