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Update:
My energy issues have gotten quite severe recently, so I'm taking a break from the mastermind group and ERE in general.
I will update when I am able to get stuff back to normal.

also; another ERE advantage: My work is having some difficulties recently, there have been layoffs and some uncertainty about the company. I personally haven't been bothered by this all that much, likely because I could go without a job for years at this point. Sometimes I think getting fired would ...

April update, savings rate: 79% I have been doing a lot of car maintenance lately, I bought a repair manual for my specific car that has a maintenance schedule that I am behind on. It's a lot of work and the cost of doing something wrong, either from needing to replace something after breaking it, o...

:lol: Well put. That quote jumped out at me as well. It feels like studying the tools of systematized oppression in order to weaponize them for the purposes of securing our own freedom. Badass, in other words. I like that way of framing it, when I first read it I just had a feeling I was in the wro...

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Fri Apr 07, 2023 10:15 pm

edit to the edit: I looked at it and that's still the old stuff.

Noted! It looked updated to me, but if there's been more changes since then, good to know. Also thanks for the links, I will check them out.

I'm very interested to see what you end up doing during your break from work. Considering how "strange" of a decision it is to most people, I can see that it's not an easy one. I'm sure you will find something that you enjoy doing after you take time to recover. I have found that my curren...

actually @cam , do you have any recommendations for partial shade herbs/vegetables? I am getting a list together for when I start sprouting things soon. I also just finished the economics textbook, specifically I read "ECONOMICS: PRINCIPLES, PROBLEMS, AND POLICIES, TWENTY-FIRST EDITION" is...

@cam nice, growing herbs and spices seems to be a good idea monthly update; savings rate is 79%. I was supposed to have finished the economics book by now, I have not finished yet, but I am on the last section. I have to admit, I have not enjoyed reading it, and am looking forward to reading about s...

I tried growing spinach, lettuce, basil, zucchini, carrots, and tomatoes. I didnt understand what the term "spring mix" meant, so the spinach and lettuce grew well, I just didnt harvest them at the right time. The zucchini didn't make any zucchini, and I got a couple ounces of carrot. No ...

@Divandan Sadly @grundomatic is right, we are at our limit for how many people can reasonably contribute in a hour meeting. Also, meeting summary that I forgot to post: Summary discussion Sat 25 Feb: Over ERE book chapters "Economic degrees of freedom and Renaissance Ideal" All of us have ...

Thanks for the responses everyone. Interesting to see that minimizing, then voluntarily increasing, food expenses for health/taste is a pattern found in others too. I have spent time thinking about how to have the reduced food expense profile while also eating well, and my current strategy is my gar...

A fellow bread machine enjoyer, awesome. In case you have not considered this yet; you can make pizza dough in a bread machine too. Yea sure, I mostly rotate between recipes that are based on dry goods, but can also have any miscellaneous vegetables added, so I can normally get whatever is cheap, o...

I relate to "reading ahead in the curriculum" quite a lot. Personally, I have found that I use it as a way to justify my feelings, more than being the cause of them. I'll feel bad about my progress/performance in some area, and think that it must be because I am not at current level + 1. W...

I can 100% recommend the instapot. You can cook dry beans without soaking them overnight, and they cook in like 40 minutes. I used to be on the instapot yogurt train as well, but lost interest after a while. It is quite easy. You can make greek yogurt by just straining the yogurt in the fridge overn...

Feb savings rate: 77% This month I have just been continuing previous work, nothing really new or interesting. I usually talk only about the things I am currently working on, so I thought it would be a good idea to do a quick overview of things I have tried, and how they are currently working out. R...

Jan post: Dec savings rate: 83% Jan savings rate: 80% Still learning about investing; I'm about halfway through the textbook so far. Some parts have been more interesting than others, but there have been some highlights, namely: the relationships between supply and demand elasticity most of the micr...

Here's a summary of the meeting we had recently, on the first two chapters of the ERE book, "A different frame of mind" and "The Lock In". First we talked about the similarity of some of the critiques of society/consumer capitalism in both chapters to other critiques, Marx being ...

Found this art desk by a dumpster, almost brand new, 125$. Like most nice things I have found near dumpsters, it is the first search result for its name on amazon.

I certainly agree and have noticed the gap between knowing the material and really absorbing it. In my notes, I have made sure to try and do some of my own thinking, often by re-wording everything at least, and trying to see how to actually apply the concepts/do the math. This is helped by doing th...

@grundomatic Nice to see some reading-list symmetry between us. I have had "Thinking, Fast and Slow" on my reading list for some time, but for reasons other than investing. Also. I'm not sure how well a textbook works with a book club, considering it's more raw information than interpretab...