Intermittent fasting changed my body and mind

By Trajan King

In Eating, Fitness, Goals & Challenges, Habits & Efficiency, Healthspan, Lifestyle, Longevity

8 Min read

Intermittent fasting has gotten a lot of attention over the past few years and for good reason. The proponents of fasting offer all sorts of benefits: weight loss, decrease in body fat, longer lifespan, longer health span, increase will power, improved brain function, etc. I wanted to give it a try and test out the benefits, so I started intermittent fasting and have been doing it for 2 years. I...

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Learning a Language Makes Your Trip 946% More Amazing!

By Trajan King

In Goals & Challenges, Language learning, Lifelong learning, Lifestyle, Travel Tips

11 Min read

Trajan King is an entrepreneur who has founded several companies, worked in Silicon Valley, has visited over 40 countries, lived around the world and speaks 7 languages. He writes about entrepreneurship, effective learning and language. The first word I ever learned in Italian was “uscita.” I arrived in the Rome airport in 2012 with a good friend, not knowing a single word. My friend and I had to...

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Why we moved to Puerto Rico

By Trajan King

In Favorite Places, Financial independence

6 Min read

“You’re moving to Costa Rica? Do they even have power yet?” That’s the response we usually got when we told people we were moving to Puerto Rico. Most people don’t seem to know much about the island. We didn’t until I saw an article about a year ago talking about the tax incentives the government started offering in 2012 to entice businesses and entrepreneurs...

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Karl Marx was wrong about the labor theory of value (and everything else)

By Trajan King

In Fundamentals

5 Min read

“My business is worth $250,000 because that’s how much I have put into it over the years.” I hear that all the time. If you’ve ever watched Shark Tank, you’ve seen it too. Entrepreneurs who value their business by the amount of time and money they’ve put into it, independent of its value in the market or the value of its products as determined by supply and...

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Make your spouse rich when you die

By Trajan King

In Financial independence, Investing

6 Min read

What would happen to your family if you died? Especially if you’re the primary earner. I know a family where the father died and the mother, who had been a stay at home mom since her kids were born, was left nearly destitute. She had no job, no education and little work experience, since she had been home raising kids for the past 15 years. She didn’t have a lot of options. The sad...

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