I belong to an online climate discussion group that today asked three questions: what is the state of the movement, do we need climate change or system change, and do we need a meta-movement? Keying off the insights from the Earth Repair Conference, I wrote …
At the Global Earth Repair Conference May 3-5 I experienced a paradigm shift in the structure of my thinking. I learned a few new things, but mostly it rearranged what I know into a new pattern. Grief about the inevitability of decline, not just of humans …
Consensus is growing. Civilization as we know it is on a death watch. Like so many who stand at the bedside of ones we love, I feel helpless and heartbroken. With all the information we’ve had for decades – all the books/ papers/ websites with …
Hey, do I look good in money? Does it show my best features and hide my worst? Can I wear it anywhere? Substitute “this dress” and everyone has said or heard it sometime. Becoming means beautiful. It also means an ongoing process of change, and can mean …
Happy New Year whoever is out there reading this, whenever. This letter to the FIRE (financial independence retire early) community deserves re-posting here. It announces my migration to new horizons – destination as yet unknown. I’ve given 2 solid years to the 2018 update of …
Deep in my box of VHS videotapes were some excerpts from the 1992 and 1995 appearances on Oprah. You will notice I’m wearing the same purple dress. I was making a point. You don’t need a new outfit for every occasion. And I bought it …
In the heyday of Your Money or Your Life’s original best-seller status, Joe rarely made public appearances. He agreed to join me in 1993, though, for a talk to 200 people at the venerable Elliot Bay Bookstore in Pioneer Square in our home town, Seattle. …
In New York City last month I visited the studio of Big Think, a production company dedicated to capturing important ideas from important thinkers. Something about the chemistry with the interviewer got me relaxed enough to not just repeat myself but to riff on some …
In prior generations only the poets and philosophers wrestled with the “Why are we here?” question. Such angst seemed neurotic when the all religions pointed to the same purpose of human existence: to love God and serve others. To be humble before our creator and …
Call this post: FI 2.0. Or maybe 3.0. One of the most radical and overlooked ideas in Your Money or Your Life comes in Chapter 7. The job of that Chapter is to have you realize that a “job” is not the only, best, most …
