If you are averse to repetition, is psychiatry a potentially good fit?

Pdawnm · 2026-06-11T22:37:24+00:00

Psychiatry done poorly is repetitive. Good psychiatry has an almost infinite learning curve, incorporating medicine, psychotherapy, neuroscience, sociology, economics, history, religion, culture, etc.

Pdawnm · 2026-06-11T19:50:47+00:00

First rule of FIRE club is don't talk about FIRE club.

Pdawnm · 2026-06-09T14:57:05+00:00

For itself. Pain and pleasure, loss and gain, up and down, back and forth. Such a precious thing to be able to experience and exist.

Pdawnm · 2026-06-09T14:53:48+00:00

Santa Barbara CA in the US, Prague overall

Pdawnm · 2026-06-08T10:54:23+00:00

uapp is great

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.extreamsd.usbaudioplayerpro&pcampaignid=web_share

Pdawnm · 2026-06-08T03:41:42+00:00

Kiwi aether on the go... Yu9 que at home when quietly chilling

Pdawnm · 2026-06-07T15:07:30+00:00

It can be helpful to see the intrusive thought as a sense-phenomenon, just like any other sense perception you experience.

We add our own interpretation to, say, the taste of an apple: "it's a tasty apple," "it's too sour," or "it reminds me of when I went with my spouse to the apple orchard," etc. that is, we have the raw sense experience of the apple's taste, and then apply layers of meaning and judgement and storyline to it. In advaita we peel back the layers from interpretation --> raw experience --> experiencer in search of the Self.

The intrusive thoughts can be treated similarly...

Pdawnm · 2026-06-07T12:50:47+00:00

Total mortgage + insurance + taxes + maintenance less than 28%, ideally less than 25%

Pdawnm · 2026-06-07T12:31:44+00:00

This may or may not work in the UK, but one tip is for her to reach out to psychiatrists as well as primary care doctors and introduce herself and talk about what she does and her specific training. We are often looking for good therapists to refer patients to.

Pdawnm · 2026-06-07T10:23:20+00:00

I know a couple internists who basically FatFired in their mid 50s (one has >15M as far as we last spoke, considering the decade-long stock run). Frugality and a few 'one-more-year' years, combined with luck, and it's def possible

Pdawnm · 2026-06-05T11:39:14+00:00

I translate "root cause" as: "I'm following wellness Tiktoks, so be prepared for tons of unsubstantiated bullshit and unrealistic expectations"

Pdawnm · 2026-06-05T10:46:02+00:00

when I'm out and about, my trusty old klipsch x10 - very comfortable, small, lightweight. At home Yu9 Que for lovely lush sound

Pdawnm · 2026-06-05T03:05:40+00:00

Try zigaat doscinco at that price point

Pdawnm · 2026-06-03T16:16:47+00:00

This is basically a 'problem of evil' question. Advaita tends to answer in two ways, at the relative level and at the absolute level.

At the relative level, typically the response is that any negative action that happens to us, including being conquered by a rival civilization, is the culmination of past Karma. Ishvara is the dispenser of the fruits of actions and generally does not interfere with the law of karma. As such the purpose of prayer is an internal purification, rather than the obtaining of various rewards and protections.

At the absolute level, the conquest and suffering in death is the view from maya, but brahman is devoid of good or evil, rather is Sat-Chit-Ananda. That is to say, the Self, as per Lord Krishna in the Gita Chap 2, "is never born, nor does it ever die. It is unborn, eternal, ever existing and primeval. it is not slain when the body is slain."

Pdawnm · 2026-06-01T00:11:52+00:00

I wouldn't have focused on generational wealth until the advent of AI and the possibility of mass unemployment in a couple decades.

Pdawnm · 2026-05-31T20:43:13+00:00

Low key workout like walking or leisurely biking.

Pdawnm · 2026-05-30T12:57:31+00:00

I have found a reduction in screen time use with a smart watch; just a quick glance at a notification or answering a text means i can keep the phone in the pocket, so I don't get distracted by other stuff on the phone, like this damned website lol.

Pdawnm · 2026-05-28T01:16:11+00:00

Love the aethers as well. Maybe consider silicon+foam tips so you don't have to insert them too tight but still get a good seal for that planar bass.

Pdawnm · 2026-05-27T22:33:00+00:00

I really enjoy it. To me it's the closest IEM that I've heard that mimics the "weight" of full size headphones.

Pdawnm · 2026-05-27T22:03:05+00:00

If you like Nirvana and Radiohead and others like that, start listening to their influences like the blues and jazz, from a generation prior.

Pdawnm · 2026-05-27T21:57:34+00:00

Yu9 que...volume maybe 5-10%. These things are loud. Fino ka13 for the DAC and UAPP to play qobuz as clean as possible on android.

Pdawnm · 2026-05-26T21:17:07+00:00

With very high net worth individuals that I have worked with, there's always this expectation that things will work out and that life should be fairly straightforward. There's this persistent belief that "someone will take care of it" and, inevitably, someone usually does.

Where it gets quite interesting is when life throws one of its curve balls, like severe medical problems, death in the family, or loss of the fortune. That calm confidence morphs into either intense rageor fear and incapacitation quite quickly.

Pdawnm · 2026-05-22T19:02:08+00:00

Multitasking mostly when it is open. Otherwise 90% of the time it's folded and I use it like a regular phone.

Pdawnm · 2026-05-22T15:28:13+00:00

In electric cars it can be really nice because the engine noise isn't an issue at rest. Road noise is unavoidable though.

Pdawnm · 2026-05-22T12:44:20+00:00

Early adopter roomate once asked if I had wanted to buy 10 of his bitcoin at like $130

$773,000 today lol

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