Jacob

Heads up: I only monitor this channel occasionally---checking in maybe once a month---due to its format constraints on depth and permanence. Otherwise I concentrate my writings on the ERE forum and citeable (SP?) publications.

Those who only live in the present don't have their future-oriented past self helping them. Ponder this until it sinks it.

For some questions, the best answer is given by the "wisdom of the crowd". For other questions, the best answer is given by "the smartest person in the room".

Superglue and baking soda...

Aggressive optimism (toxic positivity?) vs defensive pessimism (cynicism?). The latter lives longer, does better, ... suffers less?

@SlowwCo Happens when pretension and ambition relies on scaffolding.

@ecologybro @eftegarie Ultimately, it all fits together. Connecting the dots is source of the cost-efficiency. This requires seeing both the big picture and all of the little pictures w/o boxing them up.

@eftegarie @extremejacob I appreciate @extremejacob granular analysis of finances to the optimal rain coat !

“Wage slaves are free to change their job, but they’re not free to quit their job. Wage slaves are free to choose other products as long as they can afford it, but they’re not capable of creating alternatives to buying products, because they’re too busy working.” — @extremejacob

One problem with the ERE book is how it often exceeds the expectations of the mainstream Overton window of personal finance. (Note how drinking from the fire hose is bad for you!) Those expecting but a few nuggets and tips from their occasional reading are quickly overwhelmed.

Trust the process or trust the goal? What could possibly go wrong?

It remains a process ... albeit marked by the occasional results.

So it turns out that a #laughtard is a word/thing/idea already. I'm both surprised and yet not surprised.

@BarkTwain @rich_coupe @OldHollowTree @Inv3ntive15 @handmadeshoesia Horizontal & vertical bootstrapping are often neglected compared to acquiring items. Best slogan I can come up with: 'Agnostic about depth or details of baseline, decay, or crash scenarios, aim for full-spectrum semi-adequacy.'

Common sense is mostly common nonsense.

@jasonkotenko Not any longer. Reality caught up.

Imagine a world where most adults were incapable of cooking their own dinner...

You're only as smart as the smartest person in your community. There, I said it! However, your community will get smarter in proportion to your ability to include smart people as long as you can keep them.

The original sentiment of the internet was to "contribute knowledge". Now it's "pwn the opposition". How quickly things humanize...

Overton window: It's often said that the teacher appears when the student is ready. However, teachers appear all the time. Most ideas don't take off before they're ready to be taken off and taken off by someone who takes them off.

@SlowwCo Imagine if humans had their intelligence rather than their beauty imprinted on their foreheads.

A good writing exercise---albeit for different reasons---for any student between grades 1 and 81. (After that it's probably too late.) The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake ...