mrpowelldev

J. Kenji López-Alt, who recently literally wrote the/a book on wok cooking, would disagree:

Incorrect. He states certain foods and flavors will not work with induction or would be difficult without gas in the article itself. He suggests workarounds like a propane stove or butane torch, but he never claims you can replicate those flavors with induction.

Obsolete models being replaced by current ones is a better explanation. NatGeo's video operations surpassed their magazine profit long ago. Why then retain the elements that can create a high-quality product in an obsolete medium? Customer demand shifts toward digestible video content in the form of Youtube and TikTok, and bingeable streaming content a'la Netflix and HBO.

If smarts follow a normal distribution, then someone 5x smarter than your average Joe is exponentially more rare. Supply and demand would suggest their compensation increase wouldn't merely be linear.

Speaking from experience, sanity depletes faster than one's retirement account increases with a draining job.

400k in SF is about 260k after taxes. Figuring saving 50% would give 130k/year in savings and an expense rate of 130k/year. At 8.0% returns, it would take 14 years to have enough to withdraw 4%/year match 130k.

Flirted with a similar idea. The root of it was to externalize the mundane aspects of day-to-day life. The mundane: food, laundry, cleaning.

Food had two broad strategies: (1) Repeated Deliveries of staples with one afternoon a week dedicated to cooking, portioning and freezing. Meals are labeled and microwaved as needed. (2) Ad-hoc Food Delivery, think Uber Eats or Doordash for most meals. I found 2 to be excessively expensive. 1 requires dish-washing but I can mitigate it with using disposables whenever possible.

1 also requires setting up repeated automated deliveries. I haven't quite figured out how to do this yet, but I'm sure there's an Instacart-type service for it.

Laundry: there are door-to-door laundry services, and/or using an in-house cleaning service mentioned below

Cleaning: there are maid services. If well-planned you could have them arrive to wash the dishes created in the above step, as well as retrieve/put-away laundry. A robot-vaccuum helps between cleanings.

As for activities with people with similar schedules, that's the difficult part. Adults are chaotic.

There's signing up for the military, which would also neatly handle your other items.

So far I've found that a co-worker-based activity group is reliable. You all get off about the same time, the people are relatively stable from week-to-week, and you all have similar work lives.

Second best was a regularly scheduled meetup group.

Not the OP but I typically hear such advice in the form of thinking of oneself and one's circumstances as being entirely one's responsibility.

What if I wanted to be healthy, but have $<any number of chronic, debilitating conditions with no clear identified cause, mechanism, and or cure>?

Then the person in the hypothetical would need to decide to define healthy realistically for their condition. While it may be something you want, wanting something impossible is a non-starter.

one of the hosts had an extremely distressing time trying to attribute why her abnormal mammogram result wasn't being followed up on by her doctor, despite daily calls for two weeks

Great example, in this case the host can decide to call another doctor's office to get a second opinion. Or following up in person. Or escalating to that doctor's leadership/board.