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- Tue May 07, 2024 6:01 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Actualization!- Level 7 towards level 8
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1591
Re: Actualization!- Level 7 towards level 8
The "optimization" needs to be intuitive, i.e., you need to know what you want (WL7->WL8). Fuck! Would you (as in, the plural you), argue this is counterproductive at earlier levels? I'm sloshing around WL 4-ish doing "intuitive optimization:" low on spreadsheets and tracking, h...
- Mon May 06, 2024 11:09 pm
- Forum: Money and Investment Questions
- Topic: Expense Ratio and Annual Return
- Replies: 4
- Views: 174
Re: Expense Ratio and Annual Return
Try bogleheads.org as well - it seems to me they are the people who will be able to advise you best.
- Mon May 06, 2024 3:55 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: 3 yrs to FI: ertyu's journal
- Replies: 704
- Views: 103478
Re: 3 yrs to FI: ertyu's journal
At 42 years old and still working, I would be much more worried about looking back 20-30 years from now and realizing that I was afraid for nothing and squandered the remaining years away worrying about the minutia of WR calculations vs. figuring out what I want out of life. Valid, and an excellent...
- Sun May 05, 2024 10:36 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: 3 yrs to FI: ertyu's journal
- Replies: 704
- Views: 103478
Re: 3 yrs to FI: ertyu's journal
The good news is that each year that you still work, you can subtract 12k or 8k from the 600k or 400k, respectively - because you will be one year older :) so it will converge rather quickly. This is my personal back of the envelope theory, is that if extreme early retirement is maybe hard, less ex...
- Sun May 05, 2024 6:24 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: 3 yrs to FI: ertyu's journal
- Replies: 704
- Views: 103478
Re: 3 yrs to FI: ertyu's journal
Have you considered just slowly eating through the principal? What's the point of dying with all that money anyway? Assuming you don't want to live longer than e.g. 100 years old, your withdrawal rate could be much higher. It's really surprising for me that such an obvious idea is rarely discussed ...
- Sun May 05, 2024 9:37 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Sexuality WL Table
- Replies: 4
- Views: 360
Re: Sexuality WL Table
This made me chuckle. Are we having a 3D surface for all the allo to ace + the entire alphabet soup of gender and sexuality orientations too? Or how are we handling that bit?
- Sun May 05, 2024 8:44 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: dull numbers journal
- Replies: 193
- Views: 62589
Re: dull numbers journal
Good job on your progress, 10cents. Almost there. And I feel you on peace being my main want right now.
- Sun May 05, 2024 8:33 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: GreenMonsta Journal
- Replies: 76
- Views: 9148
Re: GreenMonsta Journal
ertyu, I appreciate the feedback. Truly, I do. I think all too often parents get their kids involved in activities, with the best of intentions, only to cause more harm than good by going “try hard”. On a level, even if you're not a loser like my father, it's natural: parents are worried, this is t...
- Sun May 05, 2024 8:27 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: 3 yrs to FI: ertyu's journal
- Replies: 704
- Views: 103478
Re: 3 yrs to FI: ertyu's journal
If you call your place "trash", don't pay tax on it, and keep postponing repairs, that's three clear signs that you're not cut out to be a home owner. That happens a lot, it's quite common to get attracted to real estate for the wrong reasons! I'd learn the lesson, sell the place, and for...
- Sun May 05, 2024 6:01 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: guitar player's journal
- Replies: 503
- Views: 127376
Re: guitar player's journal
Now this is a brilliant idea -- culminates in actual output and is an actual project one can chunk and complete + meaningful to othersguitarplayer wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2024 3:22 am
I can translate the ERE book to Spanish for DW's family
- Sun May 05, 2024 1:54 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: 3 yrs to FI: ertyu's journal
- Replies: 704
- Views: 103478
Re: 3 yrs to FI: ertyu's journal
Seemingly random question, but on the second paragraph I quoted...and I have no idea how far down the vipassana path you've gone, but do you think you are in dark night of the soul territory (in the Daniel Ingram, pragmatic dharma sense of the phrase)? Thanks for chiming in, Dave, excellent point. ...
- Sun May 05, 2024 12:15 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: GreenMonsta Journal
- Replies: 76
- Views: 9148
Re: GreenMonsta Journal
On DD: Making exercise into a positive time you spend together to bond will serve her well for life. I'm what happens otherwise. Good dadding. Im sure you don't need told, but: make sure you keep the time positive - this is not where to bring up your concerns about areas you find her lacking, lectur...
- Sat May 04, 2024 11:46 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: mountainFrugal Journal
- Replies: 494
- Views: 106771
Re: mountainFrugal Journal
I never paid attention before but I think it's neat that improvements and inspirations are under the same category. Improvement as not something that's needed because one is lacking/inferior/bad but because one is looking forward to something energizing.
- Sat May 04, 2024 11:17 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: guitar player's journal
- Replies: 503
- Views: 127376
Re: guitar player's journal
@ertyu: I never thought about that approach to learning languages. My response to something like this is that I won’t work but the structure your idea gives seems like a very good idea It depends on your psychological make-up. Choosing X date on which you'd sit the exam for "lowest level"...
- Sat May 04, 2024 11:04 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Introducing TrainLife
- Replies: 8
- Views: 520
Re: Introducing TrainLife
I'd be concerned that one would spend too much time stationary living on a train. Trains are quite space-constrained.
- Sat May 04, 2024 10:50 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Building a better world - Cam's Journal
- Replies: 193
- Views: 36925
Re: Building a better world - Cam's Journal
Concert sounds awesome
And good luck with the mug, skills acquisition for a worthy cause!
And good luck with the mug, skills acquisition for a worthy cause!
- Fri May 03, 2024 11:50 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: guitar player's journal
- Replies: 503
- Views: 127376
Re: guitar player's journal
Congrats on the promotion! To all of the other language learning advice i'd add, if you're the sort of person who is motivated by that sort of thing, look up whether there's a spanish proficiency test one can take and aim to check off the levels. The advantages to this approach are that someone has ...
- Fri May 03, 2024 11:44 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Loutfard's journal
- Replies: 142
- Views: 15886
Re: Loutfard's journal
This really is good feedback, 1 and 2 in particular are very useful
- Fri May 03, 2024 11:30 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Actualization!- Level 7 towards level 8
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1591
Re: Actualization!- Level 7 towards level 8
V interesting. The part that's curious to me is that wl7-8 is where jacob sees the inner work begin. To me, the inner work is the work. It's only after the inner work is done that it unspools out into "reality." And without the inner work, no action taken in reality will be persistent or ...
- Thu May 02, 2024 10:06 am
- Forum: Work & Education
- Topic: A chat with gpt2-chatbot
- Replies: 16
- Views: 768
Re: A chat with gpt2-chatbot
I still found knowing about the website itself useful. I didn;t know it existed and it's been useful over the past couple of days. I happen to be on a different wavelength right now so I used it to learn about other topics, but it still helped synthesize the material where i found original texts to ...