Tag: personal autonomy
6 posts tagged "personal autonomy".
The capacity to govern your own life by your own lights — to choose your work, your commitments, and your days rather than having them dictated by bosses, debts, or convention. It is the deep value underneath FIRE and the whole project of building optionality: money and skills matter chiefly because they buy the freedom to walk away. Autonomy connects to career capital's engine of rare and valuable skills, to the Stoic emphasis on controlling only what is yours (Stoicism), and to a minimalism that lowers the price of independence. Thinkers from Henry David Thoreau to Tim Ferriss have made the reclaiming of one's own time the central good life question.
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Better to Reign in Hell Than Serve in Heaven
‘Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven’ is the unofficial motto of freelancers and entrepreneurs. But escaping the tyranny of work comes at a price. Is it worth it?
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Constraints That Liberate
Something I’ve learned the hard way is that you can absolutely have too much of a good thing. Unconstrained freedom is, well... kind of freaky, actually.
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Fuck-You Money Part II
For a refresher on the importance of fuck-you money, go peel off a $100 bill, and subject yourself to the silent, brooding judgment of Benjamin Franklin.
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The Joy of Fuck-You Money
According to Humphrey Bogart, the only good reason for making money is “so you can tell any son-of-a-bitch in the world to go to hell”.
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Life Lessons on the Road
Travel presents a never-ending stream of problems to be solved: Which one of God’s creatures is staring up at me from my bowl, and what’s that wobbly pink bit?
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Minimalist Fitness: The Lost Art of Calisthenics
Only psychopaths do 1000 crunches before breakfast. Real calisthenics is fast, frugal, and effective strength training.
