not sure if it's @amelapay 's thesis here or not, but my takeaway is "it's crazy to live in cities, and 90% of the reason for doing so is strange concepts of 'identity' "
(I've made some bad decisions based on identity myself, so I regard it as a threat)
https://www.pamelajhobart.com/blog/how-homes-work …
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Replying to @MorlockP
in our partial defense, we deliberately maxed out "nice" on the "small vs. nice" tradeoff of homes and it made sense at the time but stopped working in a big way. we just doubled sq ft at same price in nearby, equally as good neighborhood by moving to old bldg from brand new 1
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Replying to @amelapay
Interesting. Btw, re "in our defense" - I'm not attacking! I' sympathetic to the whole thing. Long thread for f2f someday, perhaps, not twitter, but I've been burned by (a) reluctance to move, (b) inertia in allowing identity to attach to new model. Actually, on that last note
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Intellectually I think that identity is mostly bad (or, rather, there is rapidly declining marginal utility to it), and I realized a week or so ago "ugh, at least going by social media I am presenting WAY TOO MUCH as "identity = homesteader" and have been trying to dial that back
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Replying to @MorlockP
this is interesting bc I have similar thoughts but they led to a different sort of action. I concluded that my reluctance to admit very small home wasn't working was tied to identity as weirdo bohemians w ton of kids in the city.
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as such moving to bigger place was actually a loosening on identity rather than tightening
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Replying to @amelapay
yeah, I think it's exactly the same phenomena my identity was "entrepreneur", and I engaged in sunk cost fallacy around that identity, which wasted ~6 years of my life
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Been thinking about this a lot recently http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
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ah, missed that (a) skimming (b) starting tweeting before finishing high class essay reading skillz, I admit :(
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