I would be interested in hearing more about rational financial planning. :)
I know someone who studied Organic Chemestry and such in college, and comes from a family of doctors and nurses, who has decided to take a quick and rough track to early retirement with at least a million dollars. His plan as he described it to me involves working in managerial positions at various places (mostly restaurants), not spending money on expensive luxuries like new vehicles, fancy houses or vacations, and investing in long-term funds (he's looking at Vanguard as his primary investor, but is also researching others). He gets a lot of flack from h...
Thus spake Eliezer:
It seems that many here might have outlandish ideas for ways of improving our lives. For instance, a recent post advocated installing really bright lights as a way to boost alertness and productivity. We should not adopt such hacks into our dogma until we're pretty sure they work; however, one way of knowing whether a crazy idea works is to try implementing it, and you may have more ideas than you're planning to implement.
So: please post all such lifehack ideas! Even if you haven't tried them, even if they seem unlikely to work. Post them separately, unless some other way would be more appropriate. If you've tried some idea and it hasn't worked, it would be useful to post that too.