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@jmmohr Now what?

@vrexec Yep, no more chocolate factory.

Twitter is back?

@Runnnedover 95% of people don’t try though

@vrexec I do enjoy your message and your posts are definitely thought provoking. With that being said, I think you’re oversimplifying how difficult it is for 95% of people to pull off the ideal work/ life/ earnings balance you believe is the key to happiness.

Some folks have a hard time picking up nuance, but the central theme of my writing/ethos is that you don’t need to pursue mega millions to live the life you want to have. For example, common thing you hear in FIRE and similar discourse is the desire to get to $5mil liquidity so you can live passively on ~$200k/year (which would exceed/grow with inflation if in dividends) assuming 4% return/withdrawal. “Only then” you can really start living… say goodbye to the grind… putter around all day, read books, go swimming, hang with family, go on long trips, etc. But this idea is stuck in the binary... …that you either have to work full time to earn something like $200K OR you have to absolutely grind to make even more than this so that you can stack “enough” to some day NOT have to work at all yet still earn $200K... again the number can be anything. But this logic signals a lack of creativity or confidence.. or both. There’s a middle path where you can MODULATE or FRACTIONALIZE your productivity or deliverables to still produce that $200K.. in other words.. work far fewer hours with the same output. Figuring out how to do that… in my view… is just as rewarding but with far less risk than nuking your 20s 30s and 40s working an intense full-time job or trying to figure how to build a better mousetrap. And then, unironically, in your puttering around and reading books and living your life while still in the healthy prime of your life… you just might come up with that great business idea… or… your modular deliverable business BECOMES the business you always dreamed of building so you can someday live the day to day life you want… but you’re actually already there. Funny how that works.

@NoRiskaNoReward Oof

@vrexec Target Drop some food into a garbage disposal Active shooter drill Pray you don’t get ill or injured

Making a list of things we must do during our annual pilgrimage back to the US this month. - Go to Wawa - Go to Costco - Go to Wegman’s - Go to Whole Foods - Drive - Enjoy air conditioning Help me round it out… ?

@buckalum93 Wow tempting!

@vrexec Go to midtown nyc at 530pm on a weekday and remind yourself why you moved lol

@RocMorpork Jersey

@vrexec Wegmans? Are you from around here in Rochester?

@JoeHarper To Amsterdam

@vrexec We might have been on the same train. Belgium to Amsterdam or the other way?

Took this picture of Mechelen, Belgium today from the train.

@illustriousdev It’s quite difficult

@vrexec Last step kind of hard I don’t get why everyone says it’s so easy

What’s stopping you from achieving this?

@BowTiedMarmott Every single time

@vrexec Ice in your water

@AdamPippert Wow

@vrexec This is my East Coast pilgrimage list too… except my parents live within 15 minutes of the “gas station Holy Trinity” so I get Sheetz and Buc-ee’s too.

@Hired_Sellout Prob

@vrexec Baseball game

@BoilerPlateCPA I might

@vrexec Come to Philly for a cheesesteak

@ManticoreCap Won’t be any around

@vrexec Erewon

@jalex2003 First two for absolute

@vrexec Good BBQ. Good Mexican food. A high quality gym. An IMAX movie theater.

@glbaumann Added

@vrexec Chick-fil-A. Bar where shots aren’t measured with scientific precision. Beaches without dudes in speedos

@OldHollowTree I’d love to read more about this

It's honestly amazing that New England has the forests it does, given we practically clearcut it in the 1800s. You're living through one of the greatest stories of forest revitalization in history but it doesn't really make headlines does it?

@jasonc_nc Well it’s an American crop so the Europeans can’t possibly understand

@vrexec I’m from Eastern NC farm country so corn was a staple. But for an older woman from Rotterdam it was a confusing sight.

That time when I was growing corn back in Jersey

@jasonc_nc You agree?

@vrexec One of my wife’s great aunts came over just after we got married, saw corn in the garden at her parent’s house and asked if they were poor because only poor people would eat corn.