True that. I struggle with scaling up because I literally have no idea/skill in terms of what to spend the excess money on. As I note in the post, my personal limit is not money but skills and imagination and to some degree connections. Also what 7wb5 said .. if I scaled myself, I might find myself running a @#$@#$@ business having to focus on management, accounting, and other gnarly backoffice stuff. This is a trap. It's like how people get into research only to find themselves spending all their time begging for grant money and dealing with whiny undergrads once they advance enough.Scott 2 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2019 8:58 amI think that systemic optimization includes fully leveraging your portfolio of investments. When you're running at 100x+ living expenses, there's a lot of untapped potential. Bringing that down to 33x, to use spending as an impact multiplier on "everything Jacob," offers interesting possibilities.
This leaves other projects that start at a higher min level. MMM created the MMM HQ (workspace) and is apparently looking into creating an MMM City. I talked about something similar way back, but unlike MMM, ERE doesn't have a critical mass of followers.
Best newest idea was the learning tribe. Alternatives would be to join something ... but I'm a really bad joiner.