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**The Voluntary Life**

A podcast about living a life of your choosing. Topics covered include financial independence, productivity, entrepreneurship, peaceful parenting, minimalism, and rational thinking.

Latest Episodes:

379 The Variable Portfolio May 13, 2019

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The variable portfolio helps overcome some of the challenges and limitations of passive investing.

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Fail-Safe Investing by Harry Browne
Support TVL on Patreon and get bonus episodes and other rewards
Job Free by Jake Desyllas Audiobook, eBook, Paperback

378 How To Live From Investments May 06, 2019

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A key aspect of financial independence is knowing how to live from investments. This episode is a chapter from Jake Desyllas' audiobook Job Free. It will help you:

Choose your approach to investing
Decide on a portfolio design
Work out how much money you need to accumulate, and how much you can sustainably spend each year.

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Job Free by Jake Desyllas Audiobook, eBook, Paperback
Support TVL on Patreon and get bonus episodes and other rewards
Support TVL on BitBacker with cryptocurrency

377 The Best Journalling Techniques For Productivity Apr 29, 2019

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Here are the three best journalling techniques that I know to improve productivity:

The list of tasks completed today
The core dump
The incredibly simple week plan.

Listen to the episode to learn how to use these techniques and kickstart your productivity!

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Other TVL Episodes on productivity
TVL Episode 191 Task Management
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Becoming an Entrepreneur by Jake Desyllas Audiobook, eBook, Paperback
Job Free by Jake Desyllas Audiobook, eBook, Paperback

Bonus Episode 70: Thinking Rationally About The Environment Apr 29, 2019

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Bonus episode 70 for patrons and backers is about rational approaches to environmental problems. It is a discussion with listeners from a recent livestream. Some interesting issues are covered:

Bringing big topics like the environment back to what this means in terms of your own individual responsibility.
Instead of anti-human versions of environmentalism, finding a pro-human approach to these topics
The problem of emotional arguments in environmentalism, which often form a kind of end-times religion.
The vital importance of rational thinking in solving any environmental issues.

You can get access to this and other bonus episodes by becoming a patron on Patreon or alternatively by supporting TVL with cryptocurrency on Bitbacker.

376 Planning Vs Doing In Productivity Apr 22, 2019

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To be productive you need to know your goal, and you must know the best action that you can take to move towards that goal at any given moment. This episode is about managing the split between planning and execution. How can you get into the right mindset for planning work, and then switch mindset for execution? How much time do you spend planning, and how much time should you spend? How can you track the amount of planning you do? What can you learn from tracking? Listen to the show to hear the answers!

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Support TVL on Patreon and get bonus episodes and other rewards
Support TVL on BitBacker with cryptocurrency
Becoming an Entrepreneur by Jake Desyllas Audiobook, eBook, Paperback
Job Free by Jake Desyllas Audiobook, eBook, Paperback

Bonus Episode 69: The Problems With Evernote And What To Do As A User Apr 22, 2019

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Evernote is one of the core apps in my productivity system. I find it extremely useful, but there are also a lot of frustrating problems with the app. Evernote also has an uncertain future as the company lost its way and is struggling to get back on track.

Here's a bonus episode about the issues with Evernote and how I plan to change my use of the app going forward.

You can get access to this and other bonus episodes by becoming a patron on Patreon or alternatively by supporting TVL with cryptocurrency on Bitbacker.

375 It's OK Not To Share Apr 15, 2019

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This episode is a critique of the popular idea of forcing children to share and a discussion of a great alternative approach.

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It's OK Not to Share by Heather Shumaker
TVL Episode 336 A Review Of Jordan Peterson's Parenting Principles
TVL Episode 278 Three Principles Of Philosophy Applied To Parenting
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Should Libertarian Parents Be Strict or Permissive? By Steven Horwitz
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Bonus Episode 68: Giving Children The Freedom To Explore Beliefs Apr 15, 2019

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The latest bonus episode for supporting listeners is a discussion from a livestream with patrons about the topic of giving kids the freedom to explore their own beliefs.

You can get access to this and many other bonus episodes by becoming a patron on Patreon or alternatively by supporting TVL with cryptocurrency on Bitbacker.

374 Introduction to Unjobbing Apr 08, 2019

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An introduction to the concept of Unjobbing, from the audiobook of Job Free by Jake Desyllas.

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