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The Great Rat Race Escape by MJ DeMarco — WisdomDeck honest review
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The Great Rat Race Escape

by MJ DeMarco

DeMarco's Fastlane philosophy as a novel: a couple in debt builds a business through 'productocracy', relative value and the escape from the salary trap. Didactic fiction with the principles summarised between chapters.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Build a productocracy: something people recommend.
  2. Escape the salary trap through ownership.
  3. Value skew: be meaningfully better on one dimension.

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Fastlane, as a novel.

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