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Re: brute journal

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 10:53 pm
by BRUTE
brute is also currently heavily invested in distraction mode.

Re: brute journal

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 1:05 am
by FBeyer
Distraction mode release a whole lot more dopamine, endorphins, and oxytocin than existential dread.
Currently I'm all for letting my body make my dope for me. It's much cheaper than buying it on the market. And not yet regulated by law...

Re: brute journal

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 5:59 am
by SustainableHappiness
Fun fact, oxytocin also brings on birth contractions aka the most painful experiences humans go through on a kind of regular basis.

Another fun thought for distraction mode, orgasms equivalent to intense pain? The faces and sounds are somewhat similar.

Good work on your savings rate brute. External validation +1 if you care.

Re: brute journal

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 10:19 am
by suomalainen
How Brute distract these days? Work seem distracting enough, but otherwise?

Re: brute journal

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 12:53 pm
by 7Wannabe5
Arousal masks pain. Tension increases orgasm. You can hot wire or short-circuit nerve clusters (I'm not sure if this is biologically accurate, but something like that) so that erogenous zones float to new spots on your body. You can't tickle yourself.

Re: brute journal

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 10:12 pm
by BRUTE
suomalainen wrote:
Thu Aug 31, 2017 10:19 am
How Brute distract these days? Work seem distracting enough, but otherwise?
work, recklessness, steak, movies, lifting weights.

Re: brute journal

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 3:23 pm
by BRUTE
3.7 years of expenses

brute has decided to drop the weird ratio he was tracking before as he found it meaningless. because the portfolio got bigger, it simply started to measure volatility. volatility was very high.

Re: brute journal

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 3:36 pm
by slowtraveler
I never understood that ratio you were using. It was confusing. Years expenses makes sense.

Congrats on 3.7 years.

Re: brute journal

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 3:39 pm
by BRUTE
it was confusing brute too.

Re: brute journal

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 2:44 pm
by BRUTE
3.9 years of expenses

Re: brute journal

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 3:18 pm
by dagiffy
BRUTE wrote:
Mon Dec 28, 2015 8:09 pm
brute has 3x yearly expenses saved
Brute is the greatest thing that ever lived. I'd love to own that factoid for myself.

Re: brute journal

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 3:19 pm
by dagiffy
BRUTE wrote:
Sun Oct 01, 2017 2:44 pm
3.9 years of expenses
Even better...you are young and strong and you're running against the wind.

Re: brute journal

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 5:59 pm
by BRUTE
definitely strong

Re: brute journal

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 7:09 pm
by Kriegsspiel
I saw they had a profile on you recently.

https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/bitcoin-carnivores.html

Re: brute journal

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 10:08 pm
by slowtraveler
Brute makes good progress. Soon Brute be 30x.

Re: brute journal

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 10:34 pm
by dagiffy
Felipe wrote:
Sun Oct 01, 2017 10:08 pm
Brute makes good progress. Soon Brute be 30x.
Your strategies are devastatingly effective. Truly the following poem is about your glorious march to FI:

And I wait for the men who will win me -- and I will not be won in a day;
And I will not be won by weaklings, subtle, suave and mild,
But by men with the hearts of vikings, and the simple faith of a child;
Desperate, strong and resistless, unthrottled by fear or defeat,
Them will I gild with my treasure, them will I glut with my meat.

--Robert Service

Re: brute journal

Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 5:21 pm
by BRUTE
4.7 years of expenses

Re: brute journal

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2017 2:32 am
by singvestor
Fast progress! How high are your yearly expenses?

Re: brute journal

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2017 11:16 pm
by BRUTE
very high

Re: brute journal

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 1:53 am
by FBeyer
And you still made half a year's expenses in one month? Giggolo side-hustle?