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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...

Amazing that you did all of that yourself! I've got monitor arms too, very helpful, they clear up lots of space on your desk.

Thanks for your journal update! This is true in a theoretical sense from the perspective of Laplace's Demon / a computer that could calculate the universe. It seems to me this overstates what laws of physics can do. For example, Newton's law models the Earth as a single point with a mass. Its predic...

Ahahah, as long as it works for you. You're accepting that luck is a big part of investing and integrating it into your process through a random generator :) Yeah, so far it feels good, and it doesn't take a lot of time. Well, I am in Europe too. HC stands for Portugal. That's a great place to live...

Sometimes my so-called "maturity" is very painful, as I am highly aware that I will have a patriarch sort of role after my grandfather dies. My mother will be coming to ME saying "What do I do?" and I do not have the luxury of the inverse. No one will help me with any sort of ar...

Thanks for your journal update and congratulations on two months off work! Can I ask you one question - when you say "number of years at the company" - do they prefer to keep people with longer tenure or shorter tenure? You get sorted by function and in age ranges (20-30, 30-40, 40-50, 50-...

Thanks for your journal update! Congratulations on saving 60% of your income and best wishes for the health of your grandfather.

It never occurred to me that not having a diagnosis didn't have to mean that I was therefore not, regardless, an odd duck. If you aspire to be something you can often fall into it. I remember a student who was jealous of people who lived on social insurance for people who could not work. Five years...

Then again, these past few days I’ve been working a lot more on my investment business and thinking about it after hours. That made me realize that I’ve been having 2 concurrent jobs for the past 10 years. I’m not complaining about too much work, or anything like that. I’ve wanted this business. I ...

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Thanks for sharing! The car stops for a stop sign, stops for pedestrians, changes lines... amazing.

Best wishes for a positive outcome!

Now it looks like big truck and SUV purchases are being used for business write offs. With "write off" do you mean tax advantages? As far as I know, tax advantages allow you to buy more car per dollar, but it still takes more dollars to buy a more expensive car. For example, here in The N...

My conclusion sofar---too soon though---is that it's very much possible to substitute this for work in terms of "something to fill the days" as long as you're okay with it not earning anything, not improving/helping the world, and somewhat carrying the stigma of "playing video games&...

DW and I have made a point to maintain a routine of going to bed and rising with the sun Thanks for your blog update! Good to hear you enjoy travel, I've known people who had enough of travel after 3 weeks into a 3 month "around the world" sabbatical, and returned home :D Rising with the ...