Late to respond but I fixed this when I saw it. Thanks!

I find these ideas interesting and compelling. Thanks for writing. Would also be curious for further conversation on these themes.

Appreciate the suggestion!

I’ve had coffee chats with three people who like that retreat center. I like retreats, and I did a 8h/day home retreat last summer. Have seriously considered Panditarama but it is a big time investment and career break especially early career. And also I worry it would be hard on my body sitting so long and hard, and that Mahasi practice risks being destabilizing. May still do one though. Probably not while getting a business off the ground, but maybe when there is in between time or room for a small sabbatical.

Do you have any thoughts on career circumstances where I could make income for the 9 months I wouldn’t be on retreat? 

Is it possible to get a stable 10h/wk remote SWE job as an early career decently smart person? Would like to meditate 6h/day. Current idea is to start a lifestyle SaaS business.

I agree that you can’t learn a subject from using reference works, and that they are very supplemental, but this comment comes off as pretty harsh! See Exercises in Comprehensive Information Gathering if you want to understand more where I’m coming from in the benefits of reference works.

Thank you for the encouragement and kind words!

Following up re above @Ben Pace 

Looking at it now, I realize you probably unpinned it due to the dead link. Fixed this!

Thanks! If it’s not too much to ask, pinning the updates comment would be useful to people though. Just not this one.

Any chance you could unpin this comment? Seems like the idea of people suggesting videos based on it didn't work, and having the updates be the first pinned comment would probably provide more value to people looking at the post.