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But why do you want those things? If part of the price of something is maintaining it, then part of the price of ownership or even use of an item are chores. Maybe it's just for me, but I think there is a certain pleasure in maintaining the things one uses and a lack of maintenance is a sign that o...

Your projects and adventures consistently inspire me. Building in a "search for kindness" on a long journey is such a creative way to deepen the experience.

Can I demand more pics?

Cheers to the desert sounds, the wavy red colors, and all of that life. Hope you're having a blast.

Yeah. Even my own desire to "make it make sense" and "have a logic to my values" ends up a fools errand. I'm applying the wrong tool. "The work" here might look more like therapy / peeling the onion than logic / writing the algorithm. Answers in this realm flow from a d...

Another data point Total: 74 Compensation subtotal: 24 Masking subtotal: 42 Assimilation subtotal: 8 Masking high, I think?, b/c I'll adjust my eye contact, body language, tone, amount I'm facing someone directly, amount of speaking, and overall presence to ensure the person I'm speaking with feels ...

Pardon my language, that graphic is cool as fuck. Comfort being a strange human resonated and I like that the growth chart is not in the economic capital bucket.

I'm still getting caught up on your journal so I hope to read more about your experience with Zen. Thanks for posting.

Appreciate both of your responses. Going deeper: The question that haunts me is whether I'm pointing myself in the right direction because why do I even want what I want? It's a much harder decision for me to decide where to apply time, energy and attention. Money is never my limiting factor I'm als...

Appreciate the response and apologies for the lack of clarity. Re "subscription" vs "ownership," what I mean is managing that some things have to be done for you (food, healthcare, transit, rent) vs owning as much of the process/thing as possible (garden, healthcare routine, bike...

Apologies for making those assumptions! The idea that you can be stretched too thin while simultaneously living at maximum fulfillment makes me think differently, appreciate that mental 180; maybe I've been thinking about fulfillment 'wrong' for quite some time. Whichever way you land, sounds like i...

Hey sodatrain, thanks for that, sometimes it's odd to find your own voice in such a bustling community so your words mean a lot. \\ One other way to think about admiration is how we admire our hero's.. but it's best done only if we've learned a bit about them ;) Nietzsche was a real smartypants but ...

Totally agree @suo, leverage is key. I'm speaking for the perspective of someone who would want to keep my staff member while simultaneously being (potentially) frustrated at it's cost(s). Cal Newport is a bit of a productivity junky but his book "So good they cant ignore you" seems like a...

To your point, many folks definitely get mired in the process of working toward FIRE without cultivating a life worth retiring to (MMM, fatFIRE, etc don't really emphasize this, surprisingly). That's a big part of why ERE is so appealing, imo: it aims to move the needle on both work and "life&q...

And to your point, ertyu, how do I pick and choose when to "buy the subscription" vs "own the thing and deal with the hassle"? How do I make sure that thing doesn't own me (via the negative experience of ongoing maintenance)? Can I do it while meeting the needs of modernity, as J...

In the interest of not polluting other journals, I'll keep my spite to my own journal: For a forum supposedly about life involving other stuff than work, it really does seem like talking about work is a major pastime here. What happened to just putting in your hours and then going home to have fun?...

Confessions of an ERE Hoarder: Storage, Maintenance and Organization ....This is what addiction does to us. We add something to the system, which initially brings it to a higher state or relieves an internal tension. Over time this thing moves from positive to necessary. Necessary things require ma...

Agree w @mathiverse, @delay, speaking from personal experience: having folks decide they are making a change is understandable, but as the operator, it's a big problem. The cost to change/replace staff is very high, so anyone leaning on a business to accommodate their requests needs to understand wh...

My first hydroponic greens experiment ended up yielding 2.6lbs of fresh, beautiful produce. Major success. Kratky Lettuce Experiment #2 : Harvest #1 April 17th https://i.imgur.com/5kkGZpQ.jpeg I noticed some yellowing of the leaves a week in, checked pH and found it was a bit high (7), so you can se...

Everyone's comments are spot on re picking which fund vs picking your general portfolio allocation, so to add something new: One cool thing these virtually identical indexes enable is tax loss harvesting your losses while maintaining the same underlying portfolio of assets. Let's say you lose $5000 ...

Macro: I really like Peter Attia's thought process about thinking backward from your "Last Decade". How do you want your last decade to look? Who are you with, what do you do, how are you limited? One must be realistic; we're not dreaming, we're planning. From that decade, one plans backwa...

One way ERExWLs are graded is through books associated with each level (https://wiki.earlyretirementextreme.com/wiki/ERE_Wheaton_Levels#Suggested_Sources). I'd be curious to know if you thought slotting books into your framework would work, and if so, what books you'd pick. Asking for a friend ;) I ...

Bumping this thread for creative first date ideas bc I have recently become single. IME, showing competence is really attractive, as is interest and a variety of skills/knowledge. Based on your interview w Axel, sounds like music fills up a big core of that in your life. So possible date idea: let'...