Gyroscopic Investing

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 6:30 pm There are occasional bright spots, but I have to agree with the assessment about groupthink in the Bogleheads community.

It's really not just groupthink either. Everyone there is incredibly rude and bullying, and it's an environment that just isn't "fun." .....

I don’t even mind the groupthink, but there are some incredibly nasty people there who bring the whole forum down.
Here we don’t have any of that heavy handed moderating*, and yet nasty people don’t stick around. Yes, we have a smaller membership but the vibe here is just better.

I visited from 2007 until 2019.

No offense to Ladygeek. I heard her husband passed away after a long period of dementia.

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 7:05 pm I don’t even mind the groupthink, but there are some incredibly nasty people there who bring the whole forum down.
Here we don’t have any of that heavy handed moderating*, and yet nasty people don’t stick around. Yes, we have a smaller membership but the vibe here is just better.

I visited from 2007 until 2019.

No offense to Ladygeek. I heard her husband passed away after a long period of dementia.

Whole heartedly agree.

yankees60 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 7:04 pm
I started doing his proscribed exercises May 2011 and I still do them, 3 days a week (Monday / Wednesday / Friday). They are a life priority for me. I call it preventative physical therapy as I could not believe how much it has improved my quality of life and reduced so much pain to finally have some muscle. I don't think that I miss those those about 156 sessions a year more than five times a year. Everything else in my life falls behind them in priority unless something truly exceptional is going on.

Vinny

An amazing story, my friend. I have a phrase that I use a lot that kind of encapsulates what we're talking about: Always chase discomfort.

It's weird how challenging the body and putting yourself through that temporary pain just makes your quality of life so much better.

This extends beyond just exercise. Even doing things like sacrificing TV time to study a little harder can result in better grades and a better life down the road. The universe is weird that way.

You pay the admission for a better life up front like tickets to a concert, not like the cheque at the end of a great meal.

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 5:18 pm I suspect the accelerating stock returns since corporations started getting really popular have a lot to do with how productive humans have become with fossil fuels. If that is correct, and what we do with them has pretty much reached a mature state, I could see total stock returns being stagnant. I believe this was the end state of classical economic predictions as well. I'm not convinced that solar/wind/Matrioska Shells will ever fully replace fossil fuels on Hubbard's downslope. Speculative.

Krieg, someday I need to meet you in real life...

I tend to agree with you here, but I think nuclear stands a chance of leap frogging us into the next phase of a diamond age. If today's world could accept gen 4 nuclear, that would take us most of the way there. And... on a long shot if(when) fusion could be(will be) solved, that could be(will be) a serious inflection point.

(Smith1776) You pay the admission for a better life up front like tickets to a concert, not like the cheque at the end of a great meal.

Well said.

Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 7:12 pm
Krieg, someday I need to meet you in real life...

You don't want to meet the rest of us?

Rude.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 7:14 pm

Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 7:12 pm
Krieg, someday I need to meet you in real life...

You don't want to meet the rest of us?

Rude.

https://xkcd.com/2276/