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Thanks for your journal update. Eight weeks off in the summer sounds great! Your purchase of watches reminds me of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting ...

Flowers seem to help in dealing with death. Flowers live for a week or two and in that time remind you of spring, summer, autumn and winter. I've always thought of him as an old man but terrifyingly I now realise when I first knew him as a child he was the same age as I am now. Exactly! Seeing peopl...

In my case, it's the update meetings. We are measured pretty directly on "number of items completed", rather than a more nebulous metric like "impact/value". Similar to how some IT managers try to use "lines of code" as a measure of programmer productivity. I can write...

From what I hear, educated Americans go to a therapist all the time, they talk about it as a privilege of social status, and think of it positively. Europeans think mental therapy is for deplorables who have given up on themselves and rely on a state therapist to put them back together. Kind of the ...

Thanks for your journal update! Bodyweight Target: 118 (168) -2 Lb Ok, so I read this as: I weigh 168 pounds wanting to weigh 118 pounds and have lost 2 pounds since the last checkpoint. Is that right? --Job-- Things are really firing up. [...] I actually really enjoy that kind of stuff [...] I need...

In other news, I've been mulling over the concept of reproducibility as it pertains to this thing of ours. One irreproducible aspect of my life is that I pay something like 30% of the median rental price, and this to a large extent enables a high savings rate. An equivalent reproducible price could...

zbigi wrote: ↑

Sat May 11, 2024 2:01 am

"Masters of Doom" by David Kushner is a fantastic read.

Can confirm, that's a great read! Here's the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Cre ... 0375505245

Thanks for your blog update. I offer my wish that you find the calm to snipe at the right people. Initially I felt so hopeful and optimistic asking my boss about going part time, but he's made it clear with his passive aggressive comments and actions that it's not what he wants. Work culture may be ...

The surprisingly easy answer is not to eat while travelling. My body keeps going for a full day without food even if I'm cycling the whole day. As long as I don't eat anything it's surprisingly easy to keep up. When I first eat after a fasting period, I become hungry, and then I want to catch up. No...

Thanks for your journal update! Congratulations on selling the flat. So £20,000 for a year in the US, a wedding and a holiday? Sounds extreme enough for ERE :) Top of the list is improving my programming. My preference would be for a devops or cyber security role, but both of these can be hard to ge...

thegoldenpath wrote: ↑

Wed May 08, 2024 8:31 am

I haven't figured out how to selectively quote from others posts so I'll just briefly rephrase your question before answering.

Welcome! I just quote the entire post and delete the parts I don't want.

Welcome and thanks for sharing your story! Current job $50/hr @ 40+ hrs/week. Four-day work week. After taxes wage income = $1500/week. DW income is around $12k/year Total liabilities(living expenses) for DW and I in one year = $24,000 Sounds like your income is 48*1500 + 24.000 = 96.000 a year. You...

The Dutch public pension is much like @urgud describes the Danish system. You get 2% of the amount for every year you were in The Netherlands during 50 years before the retirement age. The monthly amounts are 1460 euro after tax if you're living alone and 991 euro if you're living together. The year...

Thinking about money I listened to a podcast episode of „the art of manliness“ with Jared Dillian. There he said something along the lines of „is the one who thinks constantly about money richer? Yes. But is he happier or more stressed out than his/her folks?“ And I’m gonna be honest. I feel called...

Congratulations on the impressive numbers! Interesting, I'd be curious to learn more about your theory here, researh, empirical findings, etc. Not much more to offer, just personal experience and experience I hear from other people. A diet takes a lot of discipline and fails in the long run, fasting...

That said, I don't think declaring what someone is or isn't cut out to be is helpful, especially when you do so based on limited information. You asked "What would you do?", so I tried to put myself in the shoes of the post. To me it radiates "I will procrastinate on this subject for...

I think your comment really does point to why a certain diet will work or not: compliance, or put differently, effort vs ease. I think the important question is what the effort and compliance are aimed at. A diet tells the body to obey the mind. The mind is programmed by advertisements to mistreat ...

If you take the idea of immanence and transcendence to their logical conclusions, a machine that could calculate the universe would itself be subject to that same universal ruleset and incapable of "transcending" that universe to calculate said universe. This is the same argument I employ...

- Do I return to home country to visit Trash Place during the summer? I haven't been there since 2021, and I worry that the condition of the place may be deteriorating. I also haven't paid property tax etc. on it. I don't much feel like going, but it seems like it might be a good idea. Getting more...

When I was bike shopping in December 2021 I was lucky enough to pay MSRP for a $4k Trek MTB, dealers just couldn't get enough stock to meet sudden demand due to COVID. They placed large orders which got delayed 12-18 months due to supply chain issues.... It was like that in Europe too, my bike coul...