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Due to my adult ADHD, or mild cyclothymia, or absent-mindedness, or just being an eNTP with almost no S vs. N in my makeup, I have had to train myself with various organizational and minimilization practices over the years. One tendency that will cause an eNTP to quickly accumulate too much stuff is...

@Jin+Guice: Great post! I think taking money = financial capital as the baseline capital which all other capitals are compared to is a mistake. Yes, but even in our choice of the term "capital" we are already there. The field of economics in the modern era was molded towards resembling phy...

I guess I am really out of the center FIRE loop, because I found it odd that there was no mention of how reducing spending is related to ecological issues. I suppose the FatFIRE positivity angle precluded that. There was almost a directly anti-ecological take in a popular book I skimmed recently, &q...

now middle-aged white dude, which is pretty much the worst or least cute, as you might put it, category on the planet in this day and age I think of "cute" as being the functional (as opposed to dysfunctional) combination of juvenile feminine and juvenile masculine energy. The functional ...

Or if you want it in MHC terms: Each higher stage basically controls what is possible to think or imagine (or even feel) at the lower stage. The principled Fi-artist makes it possible to think that one could hang a dead baby seal on the wall---presumably seeing it evokes a certain feeling in others...

I was going to share a sad story about how the other nerds never invited me to play Dungeons & Dragons, because I superficially resembled a 22 year old dumb blonde when I was in high school, but... I also believe that resolving the metacrisis is the most important problem facing humanity. Part o...

IOW, I think a difference in stage is more complicated than the lazy/crazy explanation of the traditional Wheaton/Overton window. I actually don't think it is much more complicated. "Passionate Marriage", the book I placed at Level 6, is very much in alignment with the transition to syste...

@shelob: Oh, I definitely didn't mean to imply that you should post elsewhere. More that I was trying to offer disclaimer that I'm not a real sexologist, I am just playing a bit at being one on this forum. Also, you are very young and actually seem quite self-aware for your age. As with the ERE Whea...

I don't think you understand just how much trauma is involved when the fastest kid in school to be routinely chained to the "stump" for every three legged race. One learns to associate teamwork with frustration, failure, pain and humiliation at a very deep emotional level. I absolutely do...

I feel like I just received an emergency call on the strictly-amateur-sexologist hotline. I’m thinking about deliberately getting above the partner threshold where sex makes women fall in love easily, mostly to avoid the falling in love with someone not very compatible failure mode/local optimum tra...

One towards unitive thought I had after reading one of Toby Hemenway’s last essays was “Oh, the planet is already a permaculture project.” Still, I can’t quite shake the illusion of agency. It’s also the case with permaculture that there is a rule of thumb that a project will “pop” around year7. Obv...

perfectly coifed hair and flawless makeup Well, those whom I refer to as the "Ballet Moms" because most frequently encountered when taking my daughter to ballet class, often also possessed the skill of terrifying those around them into abject submission. Or there is also the sort of typic...

@chenda: Well, I suppose it would depend to some extent on whether the asexual or "voluntarily celibate" human was interested in romance or pair-bonding or dyadic domestic companionship, and whether they were open/interested in the possibility of having relationships with other humans who ...

I don't know if this will be helpful, but my note would be that you will likely never again find yourself in a phase of life that is more overwhelming than the one you are in now, unless you someday choose to martyr yourself without boundary to a full-time career that also requires "Mom" s...

Jacob is more specialty project focused, he isn't looking to keep people occupied/entertained while also engaging their talents. His focus is on pushing the edges of the noosphere, a place few people have enough skill/knowledge/talent to approach, with far fewer still being able to push hard enough...

WL5 - MHC 11 (optimization is the peak of analytical thought) WL6 - MHC 11.5 WL7 - MHC 12 WL8 - MHC 12.5 WL9 - MHC 13 Yes, I grok the MHC. I have something like an abbreviated form of it clipped to my math tutoring clipboard. I got an A+ in Abstract Algebra, so likely I could touch Level 12 on a go...

@chenda:

I am 59 not 84, I really shouldn't be going there yet. It's just that my current low level of health is keeping me stuck in Si (memory) loop. If I had the energy to write without reticence about my fantastic plans for my sexual future, that would be different.

I deleted my last post due to too much personal memoir. I will save that for my stitch n bitch peer group. :lol: Skeletal Sexuality WL Table with Suggested Books (Very much work in progress. I am debating some of my picks and level descriptions ) Level 1: Pre-Sexual: "Teen Beat" magazine o...

From age 4 to 8 is a pretty huge jump in cognitive development. Pretty much all you are going to teach a mostly 4 year old crowd with such a demonstration is that Physics is another name for Magic! So, I recommend just making it fun and engaging. Incorporating music and movement is always a good tac...

@jacob: I think maybe you're pushing the university model a bit hard. For example, I just completed my first semi-independent project in data analysis on the topic of the relative long term financial value of choice of college major. Because I also know a little bit of math and a little bit of finan...