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Here's the link (not on youtube)

https://anchor.fm/talking-billions/epis ... -8-e1rv7af

topics wrote: 1) Using a physicist’s mind and tools to figure out the money 
2) How working from home can effectively double your income 
3) Retirement is not an age or a number 
4) Peculiar challenges of retiring young 
5) Two definitions of freedom 
6) Frugal, Responsible, and Environmentally Friendly Living 
7) Finally, how responsible living can lead us to early retirement 

This interview focuses more on historic/"traditional FIRE"-issues.

Maybe I have a terrible connection, but the audio ducking (I think that's the problem) is so frequent that it turns the first half very choppy, making it really hard to follow.

It seems kind of weird that a guy whose main goal is promoting his PE fund to fuerdai is focusing on financial independence and specifically ERE. Maybe looking for clients that are grappling with windfalls?

In regards to the notion of 30 minute commute periods discussed in the podcast, the idea was explored by Lewis Mumford and is referred to as Marchetti's constant. I remember reading about it in The City in History, but Wikipedia cites Technics and Civilization, attributing the inspiration to Bertrand Russel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchetti%27s_constant

There have been a number of models on urban development that explain how this remains true as cities expand outward - the conenctric zone theory, multiple nuclei model, and Homer Hoyt's Sector model to name a few:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_nuclei_model

The increase of remote work over the last few years has added a really challenging variable to figure out how to project growth and plan for adequate housing and infrastructure. Typically there was a predictable relationship between the demand for jobs and housing for hundreds, probably thousands of years. This isn't necessarily the case anymore. Most people seem to be grokking that this changes the paradigm at a micro level, but the ramifications at a macro level could be quite significant.