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Index
About the book
A different frame of mind
Is this for me?
Barriers to change
The lock-in
Education and training
College degrees
Career
Specialization
The cost of specialization
Job competition
The pursuit of stuff, status, and happiness
The problem with personal finance
Mortgage, car-loans, and consumer debt
Savings and investments
Retirement
Breaking out
Economic degrees of freedom
Economic classifications
The salary man
The working man
The businessman
The Renaissance man
Succession and the cycle of change
Ergodicity and destiny
Agency
Our current world
Leaving the Dark Ages
The next generation
The Renaissance ideal
Human capital and necessary personal assets
Physiological
Intellectual
Economic
Emotional
Social
Technical
Ecological
The Renaissance education
Gauging mastery
Decoupling and increasing complexity
Strategy, tactics, and guiding principles
Strategic principles
A modular design
Using the modules correctly
Contingency goal-setting
Effect-mapping
A web of goals
Tensegrity
Tactical principles
Identifying needs and wants
Building blocks
Construction methods
Appropriate response
Sigmoids, logistic curves, and the maximum power principle
A Renaissance lifestyle
Things
Which things should I own?
Depreciation schedules
All the little luxuries
Mono-use and Multi-use
Being the master of your stuff
How to avoid getting things
How to get rid of things
Giving away
Selling
Serial ownership
Bartering and swapping
Using up and wearing out
How to get things
Free things
Swapping and bartering
Renting
Borrowing
Sharing ownership
Living behind the cutting edge
The "limit order" price book
How to make things
Reusing
The fixer-upper or "holding"
Shelter
Sleeping and other living arrangements
Living
Eating
Hygiene
Living with other people
Rent or own?
How to find shelter
Telecommuting and work
Domestic food supply
Lights and electric
Heating and cooling
Clothes
Fixing up a wardrobe
How to build a wardrobe
Making your own clothing
Laundry
Health
Moving
The couch potato
The runner
The bodybuilder
Functional fitness
High-intensity interval training
Intensity levels
Measuring progress
Eating
A comfortable addiction
Eating like a farmer
Eating like an athlete
Eating like a warrior
Eating every other day, even?
Eating out
Cooking
Optimizing ingredients
Optimizing utensils
Detergents, cleaners, and other household stuff
Transportation
Comparing modes of transportation
Driving
Affordable driving
Walking
Running as transportation
Cycling
Services
TV, cell phones, and other money sinks
Cell phones
Internet
TV
Money, credit, and insurance
Credit cards
Insurance
People
Spouses and significant others
Children
Foundations of economics and finance
Financial cash flow cycles
Working for money
Salaried work
Nonsalaried work
Making money work for you
Important financial ratios
Emergency funds
Savings rate for financial independence
Intermittent work
Financial independence and investing
Investing and reasonable return rates
The true cost of things
So what should I invest in?
Asset management
Investment science
Epilogue
References
Footnotes
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