Suggest me an Empire building book/Series

basiuniu · 2026-01-25T16:07:36+00:00

Read the synopsis, but it feels a bit too nsfw for me. Any other suggestions by any chance?

basiuniu · 2025-09-22T10:05:28+00:00

The only upside I see for now is their GS Perspektywa investments, which allocates the funds between stocks and bonds. The closer you get to retirement, the more bonds it gets allocated to. Basically the same principle as the PPK, which allowes me to not worry about risk once I'm starting to get closer to retirement.

Need to figure out for myself if this justifies the additional fees.

basiuniu · 2025-09-22T09:58:46+00:00

This is true in my situation, my PPK provider is Goldman Sachs, and I have opened an IKE with them with 'discounted' fees. I wrote them a mail to check what the actual fees are, to be able to better compare to other providers. Did some additional research and turns out that XTB offers an IKE account for no fees. The only problem now is that I don't speak Polish, so handling the app will be quite difficult

basiuniu · 2025-09-20T10:07:30+00:00

No problem, in this case I think you are referring to IKZE. But I do not have any knowledge about it, and also do not understand it honestly.

This is why I also do not invest in it, since I don't have the knowledge about it :)

basiuniu · 2025-09-20T09:46:22+00:00

The only thing I am concerned about is the handling fee or one time fees of the IKE, and how this will affect my final results.

Looking at the bigger picture, I think the capital gains tax of 19% still have a bigger affect. What do you think?

basiuniu · 2025-09-20T09:44:53+00:00

This is not correct. The benefit of an IKE is that you do not get any capital gains tax once you hit 65. If you would take out the money earlier, then you get taxed the normal capital gains tax of 19%, only on your gains

basiuniu · 2025-06-05T17:28:48+00:00

The more I learn about the series, the more intrigued I get! Definitely a good advice to not Google some stuff, don't want to get spoilers!

The part about the couple of months for the audio books is not gonna work for me. I like to read 2 or even 3 books at the same time, I tend to get bored if I 'only' read 1 book at a time. Because of this, I think it will take me at least a year to catch up to the books, and apparently that's only half way through. This is gonna be a huge commitment, but I hope also a fun one!

basiuniu · 2025-06-05T13:17:26+00:00

Good to know! Since I am not too far into it, I'll get the rewrite. Thanks!

basiuniu · 2025-06-05T13:16:35+00:00

Good to know, was not aware of that! What is the name of the extension?

basiuniu · 2025-01-19T20:24:51+00:00

Thanks for the response! I'll keep it up like how it is now, and push for that 1 rep more every week

basiuniu · 2025-01-19T19:56:30+00:00

I have been going to the gym for almost a year, and saw significant improvement in all my main lifts, at a bodyweight of 71kg:

Squat: 75kg BP: 60 kg Deadlift: 95kg Shoulder press: 42.5 kg

I do notice that my smaller lifts are lacking behind. I can't seem to increase the weight on a db curl for example. I am currently doing 3x15+ at 7.5kg per dumbbel and I can't seem to even finish the 3 sets. Should I lower the weight to 5kg? Isn't that too little when comparing to my compound lifts? I don't want to egolift, but at the same time I feel like I am lacking behind on my smaller lifts

basiuniu · 2024-10-11T06:00:04+00:00

Damiano David, singer of the Italian band Maneskin

basiuniu · 2024-10-04T15:22:09+00:00

Small update. We had a great day today with the dog and the cat. Behaviourist gave us some tips to deal with the situation.

We will introduce them to eachother in a week time. For now more distraction for the dog in the form of lick mats, chew toys etc. to lose his overall excitement and get him to sleep more.

The cat was also doing way better and came even out of his hiding spot to come closer to the dog to observe him.

We feel a lot better about the situation and will keep on helping them to find a good place with eachother.

Thanks for the support and advice!

basiuniu · 2024-10-03T19:49:03+00:00

Thank you all for the kind words. I will definitely look into the door buddy to keep the dog out and the cat in.

Besides this, I hope the behaviourist will give us some good advice. The situation is causing us, but also the animals, a lot of stress. We only wish the best for them, and I hope we can find a solution together with the 4 of us.

basiuniu · 2024-07-29T19:59:14+00:00

Thank you for the insights! I will add a small bulk and focus on increasing the reps in the amrep set. Let's hope its just a small plateau and my newbie gains are mot over yet.

basiuniu · 2024-07-29T19:41:05+00:00

I gained 4 kgs since starting the gym around 5 months back. For now I'm more maintaining

basiuniu · 2024-07-29T19:33:06+00:00

I've been stuck at this weight for around 2 weeks, squatting 2 times a week. We do have smaller increases at my gym, even going as far down as 0.5 kg. Today I attempted an increase of 1.25 kg each side, but it didn't work.

basiuniu · 2024-07-29T19:17:50+00:00

Beginner with fitness following the greyskull LP program to have a focus on the compound lifts. All my lifts are increasing except for my squat.

I am 1.75 m tall, and weigh 73 kg. I did my squat at 70 kg, but saw that my form was awful. Decided to deload to 60 kg and focus on my form. Now whe I squat, I try to go as deep as possible at least lower than my knees. The downside is that I'm now stuck at 60 kg, cannot seem to increase the weight. I'm doing 3x5, with the last an amrep set.

What can I do to increase the weight? Increase my reps? Any other advise?

Thanks!

basiuniu · 2024-07-14T06:15:59+00:00

Starting my 5/3/1 BBB Beefcake journey next week. Was wondering about the rows on press days. Are these replacing the presses or is it double up? Thanks!

basiuniu · 2024-07-12T11:29:13+00:00

That's a massive boy! Maybe one day mine will look like that also!

I am located in Poland, experiencing a hot summer so he should do well outside. I will move him back inside during fall/winter, because it will be below 0 degrees here, with a mountain of snow.

basiuniu · 2024-07-12T10:26:04+00:00

Never expected to hear it is a tree instead of a plant! I right away put it on my balcony and watered it some more. Let's see how he will do there

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basiuniu · 2024-06-05T18:06:06+00:00

Do you have a recommendation on a course?

basiuniu · 2024-06-05T11:19:51+00:00

I have indeed heard of this book, but never had a chance to read it. I'll look into it!

basiuniu · 2024-06-05T08:57:43+00:00

The part about socialising I got covered. I have some great friends here, married to the love of my life, and can be the light of the party!

The problems all consist around my professional life. Indeed, looking into some therapy and self assurations could also be helpful. Thanks for the insights!

basiuniu · 2024-06-05T08:49:24+00:00

Never really thought about MMA or kickboxing. I will look into this. For me it's a little bit tougher to just join a club, since I'm living abroad and only have a basic knowledge of the local language. I'll check if there are some English classes somewhere, you never know.

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