The Voluntary Life

Here are ten reasons why I am passionate about the topic of financial independence.

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• Job Free: Four Ways to Quite the Rat Race and Achieve Financial Freedom on Your Terms by Jake Desyllas
• The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality by Ludwig Von Mises

This episode is a review of Eric Hoffer's book The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. Hoffer argued that all political and religious activists share the same motivations: Those who dedicate their lives to a cause are running from themselves. There are some interesting ideas in the book about the dark consequences that follow when you evade the responsibility for improving yourself and choose to act out your frustration on the world instead.

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• The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer

What do you need in order to start a business? This episode is a chapter from the audiobook Becoming An Entrepreneur by Jake Desyllas.

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• Becoming an Entrepreneur on Amazon
• TVL 184 Becoming An Entrepreneur: Introduction

I've talked a lot about my strategy for investing in previous episodes, but in this interview you will hear from an investor who takes a different approach. Rob Marstrand is the founder of the investment newsletter and blog Ofwealth. He uses an approach called value investing, in contrast to the passive investing approach that I use. In this episode, Rob explains value investing from his perspective. He also provides an outsider's take on the permanent portfolio strategy that I follow.

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• OfWealth

In this Touring Families podcast interview, Jake Desyllas talks about pursuing the travel lifestyle with kids, finding principles in parenting, and the challenges of choosing your own lifestyle.

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• Touring Families Podcast

This episode presents some interesting research demonstrating that following the news and current events can make you more stupid. Understanding the psychology behind this effect helps improve your rational thinking. It also explains why predicting doom is so popular and always sounds clever.

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• The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
• Good News is Gradual, Bad New Sudden by Matt Ridley

This episode provides my perspective, as a former free-range kid, on the concept of free-range childhood. It is a review of the book Free-Range Kids: How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children by Lenore Skenazy.

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• Free-Range Kids: How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children by Lenore Skenazy
• Episode 341: Peaceful Parenting, Unschooling, and Self-Directed Education

Chapter One from the audiobook of Becoming an Entrepreneur by Jake Desyllas.

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Ten reasons why I am passionate about productivity systems and getting things done.

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• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

If you enjoy a travel lifestyle, is it better to go fully nomadic or have a base to come back to between trips? Here's an update about our experience of both nomadic travel and having a base, and how our approach has changed since starting a family.

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• 241 Selling Our Home To Travel The World
• 252 Adapting To Big Changes
• 255 The Path to Permanent Travel And Minimalism