Maybe sometimes, but I think we tend to have the "ignore problems too much" failure mode more than the opposite.

Though I don't think their child is ill cared for, MMM is a little overly flippant about children and frugality, I think. He mentions for example that some people move to specific neighborhoods to get their children into better schools (rather than optimizing for cheapness of the neighborhood), and says something to the effect of "But it is better to just have parents teaching them and a diverse range of experiences, instead of some fancy school full of rich kids!" Which is far from obvious, because although having parents who are active in their life is great, a child's peer group also has a huge influence on their development.

So... when you say you are "of the Extreme Early Retirement group," does that mean you have started doing this already? How is it going for you?

I was about to comment that I definitely would be interested, because I am quite ignorant about this subject, and feel that I should fix this.

Then I read your comment and realized I had made little effort to actually do research on my own. So the main benefit of such a post would be to make it easy for me to read about it by putting it in a stream of stuff I actually read already, LessWrong. And since you linked to other good resources, this has already been done!

So in conclusion, thanks for the link and the reminder that outside scholarship is important.

What do you do with the dumbbells? I'm curious because I only know a few things to do with them, and they're all mostly upper-body.

to align their internal goals with the external goals. Which is million times easier said than done. In some environments it's actually impossible.

Indeed, since research shows that adding external goals sometimes tends to actually destroy the students' internal motivation, if they already had any...

Wow. That's an really cool example of careful design, taking humans into account as well as technical issues.

When are the peak/active times?

Hmm, okay. I was considering trying it on its own, rather than while doing something else. I know I wasn't able to do autogenics exercises while trying to do something else before, and now I sort of can after having practiced, so I would expect it to go poorly to try to go the other direction for the first time while otherwise occupied.

After you mentioned this I realized I have all the parts on hand to make a DIY galvanic skin response sensor. I got the hardware set up, and now I'm working on getting the software set up in a nice way. Hopefully it will work out :-)

Do you live with other people? I think I might find it difficult to live with such a hyper-scheduled system, in part because spontaneous interactions with other people in my house happen a lot. (I have to set myself up carefully to even do Pomodoros when I need to work.)