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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...

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...

https://www.amazon.com/Gamesman-New-Cor ... 0671223534 or https://earlyretirementextreme.com/the-gamesme.html

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...

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...

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...

@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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Weird. That link worked for me. Perhaps it was only free for the first few hours.