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Why don’t more people live close to friends?

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What to do when you’ve ruined your life

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Quitting the rat race

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Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician

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Addiction to ideas (2017)

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The hero's journey of getting laid off

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Starting over when you think it’s too late

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I need to stop being boring

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How did I get so unhappy working in tech?

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I have quit my job

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Travel is no cure for the mind (2018)

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Get ahead by not shooting yourself in the foot

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I was stuck on a side project for 5 years – how I finished it (2020)

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Avoiding Founder Burnout

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Early Retirement (2006)

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Building a vision of life without work (2015)

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Stepping Back from Speaking

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You Are Not ‘Behind’ (2016)

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Embrace the Grind

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We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019)

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‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special over Being Happy

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Starting Many Things

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You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make

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Why I quit a $500K job at Amazon to work for myself

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The Psychological Trap of Freelancing

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‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’

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The Dangerous Fetishization of ‘Hustle Porn’

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The Complicated Financial Lives of Freelancers

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Ineffective Entrepreneurship: Post-Mortem of Hippo

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Craftsmanship – The alternative to the four-hour work week mindset

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Things I did wrong as a professor (2016)

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Don’t Quit When It Gets Hard

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You are not 'behind'

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Why I Quit My Job to Travel the World

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Quitting your job to pursue your passion is a privilege

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Love thy coworker; thy work, not necessarily

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How to Get Out of Bed

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Why I don't want stuff

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10,000 Hours with Reid Hoffman: What I Learned

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A beginner's guide to funemployment

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Down with lifehacking

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Ambition can be poison

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Life is wasting my time

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Most lives are lived by default

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You don't have to be local

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Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Why I Wear The Same Thing Every Day, And What I Wear

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The lifestyle business bullshit (2009)

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I’m tired of the opportunists and their hackathons

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My Biggest Temptation

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First Retire... Then Get Rich

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Confessions of a recovering lifehacker

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Do fewer things; do them better; know why you're doing them

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How to lose time and money

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How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think

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The Netscape Dorm (1994)

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You don't really want a million dollars

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A minimalist lifestyle does not make you a better person

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Meet the minimalists living out of a hard drive

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In Praise of Quitting Your Job, or The New Work Ethic.

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Too much time on his hands

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How to Lose Time and Money

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How To Be Your Own Boss

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Step one is admitting you have a problem

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Keep the day job and build it on the side...

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Why You Should Quit Your Job and Travel around the World

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Quitting the full-time poker scene

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The best way to get unstuck

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You are what you love

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So you wanna de-bog yourself

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Ambitious but at peace

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How Running a Business Changes the Way You Think (2011)

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The case against morning yoga, daily routines, and endless meetings

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Reflections on Luck and Skill from the Part Time Poker Grind

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