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Dear B&G, thanks to WRC and your review of Permission to Feel I have come to your humble and sweet home. I will take a while and digest your journal slowly. Thanks a lot for putting your words into it.

From INTP to INTP
Dunkel

September Update Last weeks I've been thinking a lot about what do I really want and how to get there. I'm not a believer in specific goals but more of a kind of healthy habits pursuer. However, I've realized that to attain those routines sometimes goals have to be set, and that is what I've been d...

Happy EREBirthday! I'm glad to read how your work, your physical and mental health (and DW's) are improving. On the work part, having the optionality to pull the plug or taking a sabbatical are great news. Exercise, nature and music are magic for both mind and body. I also take your advice on Permis...

I would proceed cautiously with the theoretical and long approach. This was basically the route I went, but it is a big commitment and I had a couple years to think about it before I went back to graduate school. School will always be there, so there is no need to rush into that kind of decision. I...

Bienvenidos Dunkelheit! I'm glad you decided to start a journal and found some value in what I've shared here. What kind of engineering background do you have? I've worked with a number of engineers who focus on environmental issues. Their work is often centered on infrastructure, water quality, mu...

I'm looking forward to following along, especially as you try to work out a clear web of goals! Since you asked for suggestions: it'd be very interesting to hear more about your environmental activism. Although I'm fairly certain Jacob listed "get involved with local politics" as one aspe...

Hi Everybody, For the last 3 or 4 years writing an ERE journal has been an annual goal but always found some excuses to avoid doing it. Today after balancing the pros and cons of doing it, I turned my (procrastinator) brain off and decided it was never too late to begin it. My name is Dunkelheit (en...

AxelHeyst wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 16, 2021 2:05 pm

PM’s show as in your Outbox until they get opened by the recipient.

Thanks for solving my newbie’s issue

I wrote you a PM but I don’t know why it stays in my outbox and is not sent. Is your mail folder maybe full?

Oh, man! Thanks a lot for the advice! I find very interesting that you plan to learn some indigenous language, which puts you directly into its own culture and doesn't just make you a language-learner but being part of a "tribe". Just for curiosity, why are you so interested in begin an et...

Thanks for your explanation and the video of Mr Krashen! I have heard of the comprehensible input before thanks to my wife who is spanish teacher, but have never stopped to understand it. How have you applied it directly to your own language learning? How are your advances in indigenous languages? R...

Dunkelheit is a very cool word. Me enamoré de la lengua cuando tenía 12 años. Crecí cerca de un barrio mexicano en Chicago y fui semi adoptado por ellos. So you have mexican roots, qué onda! I can understand your passion for languages (before finding your journal I didn't know what a ethnoecologist...

Gracias por comentar. Por que te llamas "oscuridad" en aleman? Before moving to Germany years ago I searched for "favourite word in german" in google and I got Dunkelheit, which I loved. Oscuridad no me gusta tanto en español. Tengo curiosidad, ¿cómo y por qué aprendiste español...

After a very long time missing I felt obliged to devore your journal and leave this comment.

BTW, I had a great digestion and you have a new fan.

Saludos desde España

I joined the forums about three years ago. This is my 1000th post and an overview of what I've learned in those three years... ...which has been A LOT! I fell in love with this journal since the first day I began reading it, but today I have to tell you that you surpassed every expectation I had. I...

It's great to read you again and see that everything goes well in your life+body, as well as in the new job. Those work-leisure trips make you seem semi-EREd, and having your wife by your side is another extra point. Don't you feel sometimes stressed by accumulating so many kilometres around the glo...

Scott 2 wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 19, 2018 6:49 pm

The article inspired me to price out a Dexcom G6 - looks like around $900 to start, then $350 a month for sensors. Ouch.

Ouch, ouch, a little bit pricey.

$350 a month perpetual using Jacob's formula buys you an additional pancreas to improve glucose disposal

The data I really want at a consumer level is continuous glucose monitoring. I try to adopt behaviors that limit highs and extreme lows, but it is all qualitative. I am sure having the objective metric available would trigger behavior changes. My a1c was fine last year, but I think managing blood s...

IMHO the market doesn't care about the assumptions. You can build a zillion of different scenarios and in some years maybe none of them correspond to reality. Anyway, I wouldn't put all my money in the current market although John Bogle appears at my front door. Another option is to invest a % of th...

Take this link to the Offworld Trading Company discord server, you will need it. :D https://discord.gg/0pQ0rgV4DDFxO2rD There are plenty of people there who will be able to help you much better than I currently can. The top players are not only crazy good, they're also crazy helpful. Thanks! I will...