Re: The Education of Axel Heyst
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:19 pm
Great pics and nice idea on The Burrow, if just for not having to dig and chip through that rock anymore.
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I couldn't stop myself from checking: yep, no other triple digit journals (although maybe if you stuck all of @7's separate journals together they would be? ). I suspect there are some triple digit threads in the forum Dungeon but didn't feel like wading through it.Western Red Cedar wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:30 amAlso - you are well on the way to what I assume with be the first triple digit journal (and thread?) on the forums. Congratulations!
Thanks Scott. I'm going to drop skillathon altogether this year. The original idea was that Skillathon was going to be my big "achievement" oriented activity for 2024. Now that I've chosen to go all in on side hustle, I don't need any other kind of achievement-heavy thing on my plate. It'd be too much.
Yes, that's a good way of putting it, and of articulating the tension I've been playing with for a few years now. After some time of building and projecting in one place, I yearn to explore. After some time exploring, I want to build. And there is overlap - ways of mixing the two. Iterating towards a rhythm that works for me is fun.
Omg this is hilarious and one of my favorite ERE quotes!7Wannabe5 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:30 amAlthough, it is the case that a bit of "Dumb" Blonde is worth at least approximately 1 free dinner out per week = $1500/year=.04 X $39,000. So, a bit of Devil Cynster would likely result in at least that much savings per erotic encounter, and this rule-of-thumb would hold true even within long term committed relationships.
Yes, and the trial and error approach isn't at all fun for anyone involved. Books like these would have at least pointed my 20yo self in the approximate correct direction. I did the equivalent of traveling from SF to NY by heading west in a dinghy...
@AH and I chatted about this when I visited him. Thank you for the succinct summary. If the home systems are set-up at the outset to run with relatively low input from you or to be powered down prior to hitting the road for a spell then I think it is the best of all worlds. A place to go deep, but also not so many immediate maintenance costs that you are "stuck" there.
Key Takeaway #1: Sprinkle the flow of books with bodice-rippers, and don't post whatever strategic insights you might glean on public internet forums.
This is a key consideration in my (slowly evolving) permaculture plan. I am not ready to trap myself here by a bunch of herbs.mountainFrugal wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:51 pmA place to go deep, but also not so many immediate maintenance costs that you are "stuck" there.
Yep! Another big one is not having feedback/communication systems in place, with actual follow through.AxelHeyst wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 12:44 pm
Community.
- Acknowledged the difficulty of pulling off IC and the very high failure rate, and the common reasons (poorly executed consensus processes leading to toxic people driving out non-toxic people; money stuff; people not being on the same page; the huge amount of work that leads to burnout; etc)
There is a huge range both between different communities, and in my experience, even within one itself. Depending on the infrastructures in place, there are opportunities to have a significantly lower impact. There can be a higher concentration of ERE type folks that have created systems for innovative practices that can be shared. When some, but not all have this value and/ or skill it can create issues when you are sharing resources. Even when systems are in place, there can be gray areas and misuse. This has been one of the big reasons I am leaving my community. I think about DB quote from our mastermind group:AxelHeyst wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 12:44 pm
[*]My sense that a lot of the difficulties that ICs face could be mitigated with solid postconsumer praxis. It is my uneducated perception that ICs tend to consume $ and resources at a higher rate than is necessary considering their values, and that a bit of ERE skillz could go a long way towards alleviating the stress/burnout that ICs face.
We're In over our heads. IC will remain a grind for a while---it's still a lot to ask because it still belongs to the future. Probably best approached from the abstract top and the concrete bottom until there are enough personal examples to copy to establish a bridge. So theory and examples converging. (I suggesting focusing on examples to copy because theories are a dime a dozen.)