As I mentioned yesterday, I’m putting out a new book in the coming days. It’s titled Beyond the Nest Egg, How to Be Financially Independent Outside of a Broken System.
As such, I thought I would share a few excerpts with you this week. And I suppose it makes the most sense to start with the introduction. Here it is:
The world has fundamentally changed.
It used to be that a lack of information was one of our biggest challenges. Prior to the internet, finding information was much more difficult and time-consuming. It could take days, weeks, sometimes even months. Today, however, we have the opposite problem. We are inundated with incredible amounts of information all day, every day.
The problem is, most of this information is just noise. Much of it is nothing more than junk. And if we fill our heads with junk, we’re far more likely to make bad decisions.
The advent of the internet and the over-availability of information is just the beginning of how our world has changed, significantly and permanently.
Like me, I suspect many can “feel” that things aren’t going back to the way they used to be. At first, that’s an unsettling thought. What does that mean for us? And by us, I mean the regular folks.
Should we keep doing things the way we always have and hope for the best? Or should we make changes? And if it’s the latter, what changes should we make?
To answer this question, we must understand what’s actually happening on the greater world stage. And to gain this understanding, we must cut through the smoke, the mirrors, and the biases that pervade the information we take in every day.
We must understand that there is a big difference between information—which is common—and insight—which is not. The more we can sift through the information surrounding us and focus only on the insight, the better.
And one of the best ways to do this is to learn how to cut through the fluff and analyze what really matters—incentives.
If we can get a good feel for a person or an institution’s incentives, we are much better able to understand and project future actions. Then we can make our own decisions accordingly.
That is what this book is all about. Over the course of the next several chapters, we’ll talk about exactly what’s happening in the world today.
We’ll discuss the big economic changes that are brewing right now, and then we’ll dig into the various factions that have an outsized influence on both the monetary system and the economy. We’re also going to take a dive into exactly how we can structure our finances accordingly.
But first, let me give you a fair warning…
I’m going to provide you with my independent analysis. It’s not going to look like anything that will ever be presented on television or in mainstream news articles. And I don’t self-censor.
Those who automatically reject anything that doesn’t immediately conform to their pre-existing beliefs and worldview may be a bit uncomfortable with my analysis. But if you’re willing to give it a hearing, you will find that the incentives I have uncovered are hard to refute.
So, if you’re willing to accompany me, let’s carry on. But please buckle up. There are no paved roads where we’re going…
-Joe Withrow
P.S. If you would like a little more information on the book ahead of its launch this week, just go here: Beyond the Nest Egg Book Launch