Indexed by Topic

Bike

• The $1.38 Mountain Bike
• A homemade map holder for my bicycle
• How to pick a commuter bike

Bike repair

• Gaining bike repair experience
• How to set up a bicycle repair company
• Fixing my bicycle - part I
• How to adjust the rear derailleur with an index shifter

Bike repair (external links)

• http://bicycletutor.com/

Blogging

• Playing with alexa web rankings
• New metric for blog rankings
• Government Website Ranking

Changing Focus

• So long and thanks for all the fish
• Should I go back to work?

Cleaning

• Vinegar and soap
• Laundry detergent

Clothes

• Jacob´s Makeover Day 06: Clothes
• Making socks last
• Don´t wash your clothes every day

Community

• Building an intentional early retirement community

Cooking

• Cooking for 6 days in 30 minutes for less than $4
• How to downsize your kitchen
• Rice, lentils and bacon recipe

Credit

• Access to credit: Why the young generation should avoid it
• Credit crunch 101
• The credit crisis and the great recession

DIY other than bike

• First attempt at saw sharpening

Education

• The education of an investor

Exercise

• I just started and exercise program - what should I expect?
• The two year fitness program

Finance / Strategy

• Investing in sectors too big to fail

Graphs

• Graphing the meaning of retirement
• Cash flow diagrams for the poor, the middle classe, and the investor class

Health Care

• How to save money on health care

Heating

• Eliminating heating bills and cutting down on heating costs
• Keeping war during winter

Insights/Musings

• Democracy, Hollingworth and the ingenuity gap
• New math
• Spring holiday
• Preliminaries to retiring in 5 years
• The biggest blogging mistake I ever made

Introductions

• Hello new readers

Investing

• The efficient market hypothesis
• Efficient markets have zero returns
• The cult of index investing

Money - earning of

• My money lending experiences on Prosper
• Books, e-books, advertising and donations
• Why not an e-book
• After the writing is done

Parallel Universe entries

• Top 5 reasons why sidewalks are not safe
• Tattooing your net worth on your forehead

Place to live

• Jacob´s Makeover Day 01: Finding a place to live
• We are going to cut our expenses in half
• RV vs. apartment
• Why we bought an RV to live in
• Do I have to live in an RV to retire extremely early?

Philosophy / Strategy

• The forest approach to ERE
• Dear graduate, do you want to retire in 5 years?
• How to retire in 5 years
• To become financially independent at 25
• The importance of not being a punk
• Post-materialism and post-productivity
• Retiring happy in the 21st century
• Ecological capitalism and consumer capitalism
• What retirement means to me
• How well are you doing on your way to early retirement
• What´s good about being financially independent and early retired?
• Price and value
• Stop throwing away food
• Food rationing
• Utopia
• Philosophy is not the words of books

Recipes

• Smoothies #5
• Smoothies #6
• Smoothies #7
• Smoothies #8
• Veggie burger

Rust

• How to remove rust using things from your garage only
• How to remove rust using kitchen utensils only

Sailing

• My sailing adventures
• My sailing log
• Sailing, coffee brewing an The Way

Simplifying

• The 100 things challenge
• The end of simplifying
• The downsizing challenge

Transport

• Speeding and transportation
• Running as transportation

Updates

• Update 1 - From the Windy City (2012-03-30)
• Update 2 - Look Ma, No Car! (2012-06-28)
• Update 3 - Interesting spreadsheet calculation (2012-08-20)
• Update 4 - Some woodworking projects (2012-12-30)
• Update 5 - We bought a house (2014-06-08)

Winning Awards

• 2009 Plutus Award finalist