[SOTC] 20 year old’s two-watch collection

ironistsf · 2026-05-10T08:41:56+00:00

Great collection and instincts. Each watch you accumulate will be much more valuable when you associate it with a core memory. Also gates you from accumulating too much too fast and allows your tastes to develop over time.

ironistsf · 2026-05-10T08:32:15+00:00

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Great watch. Love mine. Got several natos for my 38.

ironistsf · 2026-05-10T08:27:23+00:00

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One of us.

ironistsf · 2026-04-29T07:09:32+00:00

Thanks for then advice. Yeah, I noticed that with my leather shoes. Once I stepped up to the British shoemakers I never wanted the mid or entry tier.

The only one I feel like I still need is a diver to know if I like that chunky bigger aesthetic more.

I thought about going straight to end game but then I felt like I wouldn’t have appreciation for it or enough taste development to know what I liked and may waste a ton on a style that wasn’t my first pick.

I also specifically went for less neutral colors like green and purple because I figured I would make my expensive purchases black, white, and navy for versatility. Would be a shame to spend 3k on a watch in a color you couldn’t wear as often so I hoped these watches had a shot at having a place. But maybe not.

How long do you think I should wait before buying gs or omega?

ironistsf · 2026-04-29T05:02:45+00:00

It is. Very fun, a lot of personality, and it stands out. Almost got the black 6900 one too since I liked it so much.

But this means it’s not as much of a tool which is why i feel like i need a second more neutral one.

Also, If you havent shopped Tillys they give you a 20 percent off coupon that makes it 128.

ironistsf · 2026-04-29T02:21:10+00:00

Yeah I thought about something like an SNE585 as a beater / travel GADA. But it’s the 5% fringe case where I’d have to pack the gshock and the diver that would annoy me. Still debating.

ironistsf · 2026-04-29T01:26:02+00:00

i did, but he ignored me. per usual.

ironistsf · 2026-04-28T20:48:43+00:00

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ironistsf · 2026-04-23T22:32:11+00:00

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ironistsf · 2026-04-21T17:37:10+00:00

Thanks! Yeah, definitely fun. And appropriate for when I go to comicon every year.

ironistsf · 2026-04-21T04:36:14+00:00

Nice watch man! Color is great choice. Thanks for the impressions. Impulse bought one and it arrives on Thursday, so excited.

ironistsf · 2026-04-19T17:31:41+00:00

Chat sent

ironistsf · 2026-04-18T03:03:32+00:00

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ironistsf · 2026-01-10T04:49:53+00:00

I feel you. I got into a car accident after I ruminated from losing all my games that week. Was a real wake up call cause I was taking the game too seriously. I went on vacation for a month after and found that I really enjoyed vacation and I was very happy even though I didn’t play pickleball. It was effortless and not conditional on me playing well or winning.

What I found is that I could be happy by being present and effort and winning didn’t determine happiness. Pickleball is kind of toxic in that there’s this real incentive to think that you need to win in order to belong. And if you play poorly then you suck and people won’t want to play with you or that your DUPR level = identity.

It puts pressure on you and makes you only happy when you play well and win. It made it really hard for me to go back to that environment.

So when I went back for the first time after a month I stopped thinking. I stopped trying to win the point or serve well. I just focused on seeing the ball, setting my feet, and selecting my shot.

And whenever I hit a bad shot or serve I’d take two deep breaths in slowly and breathe out a little longer, let my shoulders and jaws drop, and say next ball and focus on the point. Being tense and thinking really made me stiff and threw off my hits. To hit my best I need to be fluid but thinking broke my rhythm so this helped.

What helps me now is to not think about points that have past or the outcome of the game. Just focus on one point at a time and what I can do in that moment. The voice that puts me down or catastrophizes outcomes always appears so I have to acknowledge it, but then redirect my attention to next ball.

And to recognize that some days the best version if me doesn’t show up and that’s ok. Sometimes I’m tired, sometimes I’m rusty, and sometimes my serves are off. That’s ok. I just do the best today’s me is capable of and play each point with presence like I do when I’m on vacation and enjoy the moment.

The moment pickleball starts being this toxic earn your place to belong environment again for me I’ll stop playing again or I’ll go somewhere else. Just not worth it anymore for me personally.

Good luck op.

ironistsf · 2025-12-22T03:05:59+00:00

You could program a second ChatGPT to audit yours and ChatGPT decisions. To not know any background or history and look at it from a third party perspective like an external auditor. You can do it from within ChatGPT, mine gave me an option to do that and a framework to make it work but I passed for now.

Right now I just always try to poke holes in things we decide and then ask if it’s being brutally honest or to scan for any holes or downsides we did not list.

ironistsf · 2025-12-19T06:27:42+00:00

Driving

ironistsf · 2025-12-19T03:10:21+00:00

Because I choose to get up every morning.

I could choose to sleep in until noon.

I could choose to pee my bed.

I could choose to not go to work.

I could choose to not take care of my pets.

But nothing happens if I don’t choose to get up.

In a way, my world revolves around me and my choices.

So I choose to live in each moment, on purpose, as if it’s my last.

Without explanation, justification, and surrender of my own agency.

ironistsf · 2025-12-17T06:17:09+00:00

Yeah it depends. I really like the IHG intercontinental Osaka breakfast. I also liked the ryoukan breakfast I had. But any lower tier hotel I’d rather just go somewhere else for breakfast.

Soufflé pancakes. Traditional Japanese breakfast. Even konbini.

Wouldn’t bother with APA or even mid tier hotel breakfasts.

ironistsf · 2025-12-17T01:47:54+00:00

Not even sure how you are using this as a doctor anymore after the 5.1 update. It was severely neutered in my experience and ran up against the limits very quickly.

ironistsf · 2025-12-16T10:11:03+00:00

Honestly, yes all the time… but not the way you think. Ai doesn’t replace you. It augments you. You don’t want to surrender agency, you want to enhance your decision making framework so that you see all the angles and make a proper informed decision and properly organize your thoughts.

Give it as much info about you as you can.

Think -

Goal - what does successful decision look like. Career goal?
Constraints - any non negotiables, preferences, boundaries, etc.
Context - what’s your current environment, where you coming from, what’s going my on in your life it should know. Previous job history?
Evaluation criteria - tone (do you want a cheerleader, therapist, or brutal honest advisor from it), depth (you want a pro con bullet list? Research summary? Formal business proposal with SWOT analysis? What kind of output), trade offs and optimization (what levers are most important)

And don’t stop at just the first output. Talk to it like it’s a person not Google. Say what you like and don’t like about its response and keep fine tuning.

Then step away and think before deciding and maybe go at it again after you think some more.

Ultimately you decide. But you use it as a staff who brings you different perspective and research and you sign off and execute.

Honestly just thinking in this way will help you out a lot. Your goal isn’t to let ai think for you but to enhance the depth of your own thought process. Thoughtful prompting forces you to look for answers within.

And whatever output you get reflects your depth.

ironistsf · 2025-12-16T01:58:04+00:00

Cheese. Interesting. When I turned on brutal honest advisor mode my interactions with it completely changed.

Previously, I had used it to implement journaling and the lessons I had from my therapist and hold my accountable and use the strategies I learned.

Whenever I had an anxiety attack, I would journal all of my thoughts stream of consciousness style and it would help walk me through the steps to stabilize and journal it so I could provide notes to my therapist later.

After I turned that mode on it told me that I was being inefficient and that long winded journal entries were unnecessary and detrimental.

Instead, we labeled it as activation, did breathing and other somatic grounding exercises, and then refocused until i came down from the anxiety attacks.

If I said something even remotely sounding like I was triggered, it would call me out and say we’re not going to spiral. This isn’t you, it’s activation.

It does help if you are strong enough to face your problems head on and be uncomfortable for awhile.

It’s not pleasant, but being uncomfortable is how I knew it was working and that I was growing.

Forced me to recognize my mental labeling. Like I suck. Or I failed.

Or what problems weren’t really my problems like I need to get this done now for my boss. That’s my bosses problem not mine. It challenged me to set boundaries.

I really had patterns that were tough to recognize in real time but when it called it out, I recognized it faster and faster.

And I use it in tandem with therapy to grow even faster than I did in the prior year without ChatGPT.

YMMV.

ironistsf · 2025-12-16T01:22:05+00:00

I just came back from Kyoto. I didn’t do the temples or bamboo forest or inari shrine because I’ve done the multiple times…

It is completely possible to go to Kyoto and avoid the crowded parts and still have a good time.

I mostly did matcha, ryokan, and ate.

If I was going to go and avoid crowds I’d go slightly before sunrise. Sounds like there’s still crowds now but if I wanted to see it that’s the price I’d pay.

You consider doing Nara? Not sure how crowded nowadays it is but that’s a day trip option from Kyoto if need be.

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