Varies by group.
I am also someone who is happy to pay the bill that day and do the math
next morning (when I am sober, LOL) and message in some common group chat
what each person's share is.
I think the right time to get consensus on the modality is 5 min BEFORE the
bill is asked for. People hav
I remember the Thursday group from 2004.
It was, privileged, to say the least. Not a fan. The misogyny was palpable,
locker room sentiment dressed nicely with single malt whiskey.
Different groups of friends but pretty much the same model with the split -
Those who drank alcohol - alcohol bill spl
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 09:16 Udhay Shankar N via Silklist <
silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote:
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> 3. Liquor is where this model faces challenges. A teetotaller (or even a
> beer drinker, such as myself) might feel hard done by, if asked, on a
> regular basis, to partly subsidize someone orderin
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 4:13 PM Peter Griffin via Silklist <
silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote:
Aside from the liquor issue, there is also the thing that (at least in
> India) meat dishes tend to cost more than than no-meat options. A
> vegetarian (and non-drinker) friend has begun refusing night
> There have also been occasions, such as with a particular member of this
> list, where he unilaterally decided to contribute an amount that was
> significantly more than the even split per head because he felt his share
> was more (actually, he usually contributed more than his share). This is
>
On 1/24/24 10:16 PM, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist wrote:
Very interesting thought. The most thought-provoking part is "changing
your mental model" which resonated with me, because the mental model
which causes this to be an issue in the first place is "Am I being taken
advantage of?" (which is
Tell me then, in what other areas of your life have you applied the new
learnings with money?
I find the human relationship with money extraordinarily interesting. My
current social experiment is asking how much could I pay them to take a 3
minute cold shower every day, for a whole year. No hot wa
I would do the shower thing for somewhere between USD$100 and USD$500 per
day. ($100 is probably not enough, $500 definitely is.)
One learning about money is that looking at investments daily makes me
unhappy and that for me the "asymmetry of happiness" is real - that losing
$100 makes me more unh
I've been taking tepid showers for close to 2 years now but what I find an
absolute blast is swimming in the cold waters of the Pacific near Canada.
Both invigorating and tiring.
About dropping a $100 bill it isn't impossible now and then but the
incentive needs to be strong: recently my mother's
