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by jacob
Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:06 pm
Forum: Mastermind Groups
Topic: Mastermind Group #2: Electric Boogaloo
Replies: 59
Views: 12029

Re: Mastermind Group #2: Electric Boogaloo

I'm feeling like I need to increase my MBTI awareness beyond the most basic. You seem super into it (as does @Bicycle7!)... any suggestions for where to get started? I guess I should also ask, has it been as an important and helpful of a tool for you (both) as it seems? https://www.amazon.com/Pleas...
by jacob
Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:22 am
Forum: Mastermind Groups
Topic: How to start and run a Mastermind Group
Replies: 17
Views: 19785

Re: How to start and run a Mastermind Group

Your suggestion from the MMG today, enouraging us to post *something* to the MMG thread was good I think. It's participation on the forum, should get the gist of the meeting across thru a couple posts, and is a way to share highlights/resources discussed. Maybe that's less generally helpful than a ...
by jacob
Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:10 am
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8289

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

Seems like this could easily be made more of a game set in variety of immersive environments. I think Dance Card would be a good concept, which could also provide for game-process-screened levels. For example, can you exhibit the behaviors necessary to get past the AI Blue-Haired Matrons/Lady Patro...
by jacob
Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:18 pm
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8289

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

@7wb5- You might find the following interesting, perhaps the whole page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and ... references

(It seems to me to mirror the same and not entirely unexpected imbalances for certain vocations.)
by jacob
Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:20 pm
Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
Topic: ERE City (US)
Replies: 425
Views: 156103

Re: ERE City (US)

It's also on the shores of Lake Michigan with beaches and has plenty of cultural opportunities thanks to the University and the town center. Some have listed nature as a desirable in the survey. Other than the beach, how would you rank the availability of nature in Evanston? I realize that people h...
by jacob
Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:54 am
Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
Topic: ERE City (US)
Replies: 425
Views: 156103

Re: ERE City (US)

For the aesthetically minded, IMO Evanston is much more attractive with quite a few Victorian homes and an array of architectural styles compared to the Cicero/Berywn area which is largely comprised of uniform brick houses and buildings. I should have put a question in about "desired home-type...
by jacob
Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:11 pm
Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
Topic: ERE City (US)
Replies: 425
Views: 156103

Re: ERE City (US)

* = I'm not certain what (if any) the optimal population density is for such a place. I've lived in a streetcar suburbs with density ~7k/sq mi and ~9k/sq mi, while it looks like Cicero is 14.5k/sq mi. Yes, and the subway basically ends here, so it's only useful if you want to go downtown [to Chicag...
by jacob
Thu Mar 14, 2024 4:52 pm
Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
Topic: ERE City (US)
Replies: 425
Views: 156103

Re: ERE City (US)

... and the linked "Urban vs Rural Sustainability" article, his points are really starting to land. I recommend reading this article due to its relevance to the "ERE City" concept. In particular, the importance of living in an area with like-minded people who are mostly on the s...
by jacob
Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:59 pm
Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
Topic: 4th, 5th, 6th Person Perspective
Replies: 151
Views: 47571

Re: 4th, 5th, 6th Person Perspective

Riggerjack wrote:
Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:46 pm
Jacob, we've been talking past each other for 18 months. This would be so much faster in a synchronous communications medium.
I think it would be very helpful if you would summarize your idea in 200 words or less. One or two paragraphs and NO question marks.
by jacob
Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:11 am
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8289

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

2) My association between 'people who spend time in nature' and 'people who possess ecological literacy' might be pretty shaky. Plenty of people spend time in nature and would be totally mystified by e.g. JMGs tiers of economies (primary = natural resources, secondary = product of human labor on na...
by jacob
Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:36 am
Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
Topic: 4th, 5th, 6th Person Perspective
Replies: 151
Views: 47571

Re: 4th, 5th, 6th Person Perspective

@Riggerjack - If I understand you correctly, you're proposing a kind of camp site/RV park that functions as a test lab/school? (We talked about something very similar for the ERE RV Park back in 2012 or so, also the ERE Survival School or something to that effect) The problem (challenge?) with such ...
by jacob
Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:05 am
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8289

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

I will once again reiterate that the point is that humans won't miss what they never had or never learned to enjoy in the first place. Therefore the strategy is to avoid acquiring a taste for anything that will eventually and predictably be lost. Even better, acquire a taste for something that will ...
by jacob
Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:01 am
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8289

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

I think most of the humans currently grieving the loss of nature in their locale, probably live in warm places with good jobs. There's still plenty of nature in cold places with crappy jobs, like my current neck-of-the-woods. Obviously, if this is a trend one truly believes in, rather than investin...
by jacob
Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:09 am
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8289

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

Yeah, so to summarize the plan/strategy. Randers2052 focuses on (lower case) "nature", which is commonly understood as wilderness, that is, places that are undeveloped and (mostly) unoccupied by humans. This is also the dictionary definition. Even if you take "wilderness" to incl...
by jacob
Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:47 pm
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8289

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

... that the loss will simply accelerate if people stop caring [about nature]. Not stopping to care about anything.
by jacob
Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:36 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: guitar player's journal
Replies: 466
Views: 121742

Re: guitar player's journal

I understand that teaching is important and noble and mathematics very useful. I'm just saying there is a difference between thinking this plus liking mathematics and teaching it on a daily basis to children who are mostly not interested in the subject. (my bold) That! This holds all the way up to ...
by jacob
Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:24 pm
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8289

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

For the purpose of [Randers2012], nature is everything in the world ---but especially the plants and animals--- that is not made by people . There's increasingly less of that kind of nature and increasingly more humans and human-constructed stuff. I'm aware that a construct in which nature includes ...
by jacob
Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:26 am
Forum: ERE Community
Topic: ERE Marching Meetup Series
Replies: 79
Views: 30228

Re: ERE Marching Meetup Series

I didn't sign up for the official virtual event, so we can pretty much go whatever distance we want. Since I'm out of shape and have a bum toe, I do not plan on carrying weight. I'm figuring on a walking tour of the "ERE City chicagoland"-proposal . The first part will cover most of the im...
by jacob
Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:40 am
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)
Replies: 112
Views: 8289

Re: Gaming/virtual economies (EVE online)

I just finished John Michael Greer's "The Retro Future" in which he hypotheisizes that a lack of exposure to nature may inhibit or alter human mental development, because "the city" does not provide enough negative feedback to the sort of abstractions the human brain is likely t...
by jacob
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:02 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Slevin's journal
Replies: 192
Views: 26788

Re: Slevin's journal

Anyone have beginner advice / links on a basic hand planer? I have some rough cut 6 x 6s (probably 5.8") that I need to bring down to 5.5" square on the ends to fit some standard 6 by hardware into. Seems like the right place for a hand planer? Though I probably could use a power sander, ...