Peter MuReading Journal

March 8, 2024

Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence

Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence

Fisker, Jacob Lund

However, imagine what would happen if 12-year-olds with the same intellectual power as high school students, but without the acquired discipline and dulled creativity to sit still and follow boring work procedures for extended periods, suddenly flooded the job market. Would they even want a job?

2:37 AM

学校延迟了就业时间

✎ NOTE

Specific functions are thus associated with specific (brand name) products rather than the operating ingredients and construction of the product.

2:51 AM

我们对产品的理解被品牌束缚了。只知道什么牌子的东西能干嘛,而不去理解工作原理

✎ NOTE

Most career people's lives are dominated by schedules and procedures. They get up at the same time every day. They take the same route to work and sit at the same desk and do the same things day-in and day-out for many years. At the end of the day, they go back along the same route. They have various chores and activities scheduled until they go to bed at the same time.

5:07 AM

上班生活的写照

✎ NOTE

continuously bleeding money as luxuries become wants, wants becomes habits, and habits become needs, and so they slowly die a financial death by a thousand nibbling ducks

5:20 AM

As workers spend more time on the job, it leads to a dependence on the job, since little time can be spent on alternative pursuits. Having several income streams is in fact highly dangerous to worker motivation.

5:26 AM

收入多样会减少对工作的依赖度

✎ NOTE