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Maximize Your Leverage with Eric Jorgenson

Forcing Function Hour

CHAPTER

How to Optimize for the Long Term

I reduce it down to numeric values just to make the trade-offs explicit again thinking about math. I think addressing some of the maintenance things are some of the hardest because some of them feel low leverage by the same token right like going to the gym doesn't seem high leverage by any mathematical sense but then I really like the Ed Thor perspective on it which is like every day that I work out is one less week I'll spend at the hospital in the end of my life. When you don't work out there is a technical debt that's building up that will need to be paid someday so essentially you are instead of creating leverage you are creating negative leverage that you are treating your future for the

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