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Comment on My Favorite Heuristic for Evaluating Relationships: The Antifragile Person by Zack Kanter

This was great. For the most part, I love finding out that I’ve been doing it all wrong – as an introspective person, this gets harder to do as time goes on…the low hanging fruit is all picked. Some are more painful than others to realize, but – for antifragile people – ignorance is not bliss. Glad to have a term for it now.

One word of caution. It’s easy to let something become part of ‘your story’ – “I’m bad at first impressions.” You then react to fix this – perhaps successfully, but it’s...

Comment on How To Read 60 Books a Year by BargainBob

Spamalot!

Comment on The Retirement Catch-22: Why Those Who Want to Retire Most, Can’t by Steven Moody

Totally! One of the fun parts of the infinite game is creating finite games rather than playing them. If the corporation could speak it would be very content with its life

Comment on The Retirement Catch-22: Why Those Who Want to Retire Most, Can’t by Tom Howard

Interesting point about Large Corporations. Its almost as if the corp plays the game by creating finite games for employees.

Comment on The Retirement Catch-22: Why Those Who Want to Retire Most, Can’t by Steven Moody

The retirement paradox is excellent!

The way I view infinite games is a bit different. A basketball player at the end of their career is probably still playing a finite game: win a ring, hall of fame, etc. HBO’s recent show Baller’s isn’t that good overall, but it unintentionally narrates this transition from one game to another quite well.

Infinite games are mostly a mindset choice. I can play basketball to win, but most of the time I’m playing just to keep playing. The less good you are at...

Comment on The Retirement Catch-22: Why Those Who Want to Retire Most, Can’t by Taylor Pearson

Thanks for the kind words! I’ll be back to regular postings. Shooting for every other week going forward.

You’re smart to get a basic foundation in accounting. I agree with Sebastian that understanding the basics are important and it’s one of the subjects where colleges/universities do add substantial value.

Re: Entre-employee – That’s awesome! I’m very bullish on those sort of opportunities. I use the term apprenticeship, but you can call it whatever you want. I got a tremendous value from h...

Comment on The Retirement Catch-22: Why Those Who Want to Retire Most, Can’t by Taylor Pearson

Venkat was the one that turned me onto Carse. Godin also mentions him periodically so as far as triangulating good books that’s a 1-2 punch you can’t ignore.

It’s definitely something that I see popping up everywhere. It’s one of those books that you seem to have to read and just let sit on your subconcious for a while and soak in.

Comment on The Retirement Catch-22: Why Those Who Want to Retire Most, Can’t by Radhika Morabia

Hey Taylor, long comment [as usual] ahead.

First of all, does this post mark your return to weekly publishing? I’ve missed your blog!

I love that you mention accounting. I’m taking an accounting course at my local CC for a few reasons 1) I wanted to check what I was missing out on in a low-risk way, 2) Sebastian Marshall said college is still the best way to learn accounting, 3) I don’t want to make any drastic mistakes with my finances that even a real accountant can’t fix.

Of course, it’s...

Comment on The Retirement Catch-22: Why Those Who Want to Retire Most, Can’t by Dan Fries

Resonating deeply with the infinite game concept, after reading EOJ (the first third), Breaking Smart, and others, it’s started to appear in every area of life, not just work:

– health and fitness (ask yourself: is this a diet/fitness routine/habit that I could and would want to continue until I die?)
– wealth
– relationships (you mentioned somewhere that we have to build systems to optimize for intangibles, because it’s something that – for most people – doesn’t come naturally. In building t...

Comment on The Fourth Economy and The Future of Work by Taylor Pearson

I have heard of it, but haven’t gotten round to reading it it yet. Will move it up the list. Thanks!