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- Sat May 11, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: Health and Food Questions
- Topic: On-the-go Meal Prep Kit for maximizing grocery stores as an alternative to fastfood/restaurants?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 643
Re: On-the-go Meal Prep Kit for maximizing grocery stores as an alternative to fastfood/restaurants?
in decroissant order of importance knife I find it interesting that "knife" always comes out on top. In a modern world of airplanes and paper, I find a pair of scissors more universally useful. This to the point where I use scissors for typical knife-problems like cutting lettuce, broccol...
- Sat May 11, 2024 11:34 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
- Replies: 661
- Views: 178779
Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
A minor "ah-ha" moment I had recently was realizing that Fe-Style Compassion could be spreadsheeted under the realm of Personal Finance in the form of a Non-Profit and this would make it easier to "sell" ERE to those with Fe further up their stack. Very similar to how somebody w...
- Sat May 11, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: FI with regular income?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5682
- Sat May 11, 2024 9:11 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Embracing Solitude: INTJ's Journey Towards Retirement
- Replies: 244
- Views: 94567
Re: Embracing Solitude: INTJ's Journey Towards Retirement
From what I hear, educated Americans go to a therapist all the time, they talk about it as a privilege of social status, and think of it positively. Europeans think mental therapy is for deplorables who have given up on themselves and rely on a state therapist to put them back together. Kind of the...
- Sat May 11, 2024 7:33 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
- Replies: 661
- Views: 178779
Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
I also believe that resolving the metacrisis is the most important problem facing humanity. Part of what I was trying to communicate is reflective of feeling mature tertiary Fe compassion for Little Carl Big Carla, Green-Team Jean and Gene, and even 60 year old ESTJ engineers named Hank who are cli...
- Sat May 11, 2024 6:54 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: FI with regular income?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5682
Re: FI with regular income?
You think the plumber goes home and belabors his wife with vivid stories of the particularly intransigent pieces of excrement he had to deal with today? Somehow I doubt it. Admittedly only a sample size of one, but one of the in-laws is actually a plumber and every time we meet, it's all he ever ta...
- Fri May 10, 2024 9:30 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
- Replies: 661
- Views: 178779
Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
@Kipling - And not just teachers and the school system. After all teachers are also constrained by what they actually can do in terms of individual attention. The precocious student will often have to do with pestering the teacher about advanced/interesting stuff for a few minutes after class and af...
- Thu May 09, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: Health and Food Questions
- Topic: On-the-go Meal Prep Kit for maximizing grocery stores as an alternative to fastfood/restaurants?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 643
Re: On-the-go Meal Prep Kit for maximizing grocery stores as an alternative to fastfood/restaurants?
I'm not overthinking this. Eating only once a day makes solving this much easier than having to eat three or six times a day. When we travel $MCD has a deal where buying a burger will get you a free extra burger of the same kind or less the next time you buy one + a receipt to keep repeating the dea...
- Thu May 09, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Sexuality WL Table
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1162
Re: Sexuality WL Table
I'm wondering whether a 1-dimensional table is the best format here. Beyond stage 3, it involves two people each at their own stage. Later stages potentially even more :-P . Getting into the nitty-gritty of matrices and tensors would void the useful parsimony of a table, but how you explain stage N ...
- Thu May 09, 2024 2:41 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Ego's Journal
- Replies: 393
- Views: 62840
Re: Ego's Journal
It could be one of those strange opportunities that would have never appeared had we not pressed reset. Brilliant! I think it's also a connection that wouldn't have happened if Mrs Ego hadn't (spontaneously?) mentioned the possibility. Ultimately, it's about control, access, and optionality. Lunch ...
- Thu May 09, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
- Replies: 661
- Views: 178779
Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
I somehow suspect that this song is about me ... One of the (lifetime) challenges handed to [gifted] INTJs is to learn how to suffer fools gladly. Of all the temperaments, INTJs will have the hardest time with that, because Fe is so deeply burried in the stack (7th) of preferences that it's hard to ...
- Thu May 09, 2024 1:14 pm
- Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
- Topic: NYT article on fatFIRE
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1035
Re: NYT article on fatFIRE
I do hope that someone would edit the wikipedia article, since wikipedia-rules bars people from self-editing. However, I told the fact-checker that the whole "father"-reference thing is pretty rare and that it kinda diminishes the generations that came before. They ignored it and wrote it ...
- Thu May 09, 2024 7:23 am
- Forum: Friends, Family, Relationships, and Community Questions
- Topic: What do you do for work?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 877
Re: What do you do for work?
I used to say that I was a writer, but since I don't publish much at all anymore---even if I type a lot of words---calling myself a writer sounds a bit pretentious. I tried the "I collect interest and dividends" a few times, but some people just thought I was "in between jobs". T...
- Wed May 08, 2024 2:52 pm
- Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
- Topic: NYT article on fatFIRE
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1035
Re: NYT article on fatFIRE
Is it possible for you to share those 5500 words? I would like to know more! The author/editor were already set on the fatFIRE angle, so it was mostly me pushing back on the idea that fatFIRE is not taking over the world, and there's more to FIRE than a bunch of tech-bros pretending to be frugal an...
- Wed May 08, 2024 11:50 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: The ERE Wheaton Scale
- Replies: 553
- Views: 149925
Re: The ERE Wheaton Scale
ETA2: I guess I don’t really know the difference between wanting to get a black belt because black belt and wanting to get better, improve, grow, become more authentically the best version of myself etc. Internally it feels like I pursue the latter, but I am always suspicious that I’m fooling mysel...
- Wed May 08, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: The ERE Wheaton Scale
- Replies: 553
- Views: 149925
Re: The ERE Wheaton Scale
Speedrunning is more of an overall strategy/approach of attempting to progress through the WLs as rapidly as possible. Not necessarily bad, but frought with risk (skipping steps and tripping). The danger of trying to go fast is in not actually achieving unconscious competence at certain skills and ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 1:01 pm
- Forum: Work & Education
- Topic: Physics experiments for 4-8 yo
- Replies: 12
- Views: 582
Re: Physics experiments for 4-8 yo
Fun tangent: I once visited a Little Free Library in NY which aside from the usual free books also had a box with various school-level math puzzles and science experiments. Kinda like how other LFLs sometimes offer small bags of seeds, postcards, bookmarks, ... except this was small bags of STEM ori...
- Tue May 07, 2024 12:09 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: 3 yrs to FI: ertyu's journal
- Replies: 711
- Views: 104169
Re: 3 yrs to FI: ertyu's journal
That sounds amazing - basically an UBI scheme for old people. I'm guessing most countries aren't as generous as Denmark though. It depends #TANSTAAFL If you're single w/o any savings, you should be able to haul in $2000/month AFTER tax. Average cost of living in Denmark is roughly the same as the a...
- Tue May 07, 2024 9:35 am
- Forum: Work & Education
- Topic: Physics experiments for 4-8 yo
- Replies: 12
- Views: 582
Re: Physics experiments for 4-8 yo
I have fond memories of my science teacher cutting up lumps of potassium and throwing them in water. But I fear the health and safety people will have a lot to say about that and it won't be favourable. Me too. I bet that the legal profession has had some boring impact on school science experiments...
- Tue May 07, 2024 9:29 am
- Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
- Topic: NYT article on fatFIRE
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1035
Re: NYT article on fatFIRE
Weird. That link worked for me. Perhaps it was only free for the first few hours.