• Do Not message me just to ghost or block me! That behavior will NOT be TOLERATED!Think it through before you message me!! I don't want to get emotionally hurt again.*

• Trying to write the protagonist's organization like a startup, the whole series: Startups can only behave like startups while they're small. Once a company gets big, attempts to continue functioning like a startup will just make the whole thing crash and burn. When you're small, just going "oh, Richard down the hall knows how to fix that" works fine. Once an organization grows in size, Richard down the hall cannot fix the issue for hundreds or thousands of people- there need to be standards and practices in place. And unfortunately, the transition between small agile startup and robust, reliable large business is a REALLY tough one to navigate, and is a spot where corporations frequently fail. This difficulty unfortunately extends to writing about the transition as well- something not helped by an absolutely ridiculous culture of praising startup values at levels ranging from the large mature corporations to schools to national governments! (I blame the VC industry for this silliness- they were largely responsible for an ecosystem where startups could wholly concern themselves with making themselves look good for potential buyers among the large tech firms, rather than care about profitability in any way, shape, or form. This silliness then spread, and... ugh, don't get me on a rant about VCs, it's a stupid industry full of stupid investors who are investing other people's money (often from pension funds) and getting disproportionate rewards on their rare few wins, while being sheltered from their losses, all while ignoring actual due diligence.)
• Trying to write capitalism into a pseudomedieval setting: Medieval Europe was not capitalist, full stop. It was a feudal economy with its own distinct economic systems, often of shocking complexity and international scope. Do you need an accurate medieval economy in your progression fantasy? Probably not, it would be a lot of work to adequately explain it to your readers while logically modifying it to the demands of your magic system. At the same time, however, importing capitalism is a much more demanding challenge, because it relies on certain technologies and social structures that tend to be absent from pseudomedieval fantasy. (I'm importing capitalism into my current pseudomedieval work, but I'm doing it purposefully, and knowing what I'm doing, with a strong (at least for a layman) understanding of both capitalism and medieval economies.
• Mistaking commerce for capitalism: When you go to the corner shop and buy a soda, you're not engaging in capitalism, you're engaging in commerce. In fact, most of use do not actively engage in capitalism in our day to day, though we often act as cogs in it. When I write a book, it's not capitalism, it's labor. When I buy lunch, it's not capitalism, it's commerce. Defining capitalism positively is a trickier endeavor, but generally speaking, you can see it as leveraging capital- high value goods that amplify labor value, like industrial machinery, real estate, or some intellectual property.
• Going too fast in the late stages: Lotta economic PF and LitRPG picks up the pace of economic growth after a slow initial start, which... just doesn't feel right. Large scale expansion is difficult and slow in the real world, and is a much different challenge than the early stages.
• Insufficient delegation: A PF MC that doesn't delegate in their economic organization as it gets large is gonna fail hard, and if they don't and somehow still succeed, it's not gonna read right to readers familiar with economics or the function of large firms.
• Treating economic systems as too stable, especially capitalism: Economic systems screw up on the REGULAR, almost regardless of system. Having an economic system that's just been stable for centuries (hell, for decades) is deeply unrealistic. (Capitalism is especially prone to this, love it or hate it. (You should hate it.) Both socialist and capitalist analyses of capitalism tend to center on crises of capitalism, for good reason. Keynsian economics (or as left and right wingers alike enjoy calling it, for different reasons, Socialism Lite), is almost entirely built around strategies for avoiding, minimizing, and recovering from crises of capitalism.)
• Falling for the Tragedy of the Commons: Look, coordination problems are damn tricky, and a lot of communities have failed at commons management. It's a real challenge with real failure states! But the Tragedy of the Commons in its modern form? Was completely non-empirical, just a bullshit thought experiment white nationalist Garret Hardin made up to advocate for eugenics. There are PLENTY of clever ways small communities manage to share common resources- in fact, this was basically how medieval economics worked! Villages shared most of their grazing land and much of their agricultural land, and had shared common coppicing rights in local forests. (With variances for region and feudal system.) The lords were very seldom managing peasants in their fields. (Why would they want to?) If you want to deep-dive into how small to mid-sized communities can safely manage their economic commons, I highly recommend Elinor Ostrom's Nobel-winning book (For Nobel in Economics values of Nobel) Governing the Commons.
• Power scaling wrong: Wealth is power. Any power you give a character in progression fantasy? You gotta take into account when giving them challenges, so you have them at the power level you want them. Lotta folks slip on this one.
• Having protagonists make money too easily: A lot of protagonists- especially isekai protagonists- just wander into a pseudomedieval society with an absolutely bottom shelf business idea and get filthy rich with it, to the point where it's kind of absurd how easy it is for them. You really think none of the locals wouldn't have thought of that? Avoid low-hanging branches, folks. (I'm reminded of a scene from the terrible 2001 move Black Knight, where Martin Lawrence tries to fend off his execution by showing a medieval crowd a lighter. "I make fire!" To which a bored peasant replies "We have fire.") Many technologies that would be nominally feasible for pseudomedieval societies would fail due to lack of support infrastructure- semaphore towers, for instance, would have been technologically feasible all the way back in the Roman Empire, but their optics technology sucked- without spyglasses, they would have had to place the towers way too close together, making semaphores economically unfeasible.
• Having the protagonist become filthy rich without changing their role in society: Large amounts of money warp the hell out of social relations around people, in quite a few ways.
• Making your currency system too clean and neat. A pseudomedieval currency with fixed decimal
• Falling for "one neat trick": Pretty much ANY time someone advocates for a single cure for all economic ills, it's... probably bullshit. "Going back to the gold standard will fix all our problems!" "Giving control of the economy to genius CEOs will fix all our problems!" "Executing all landlords will fix all our problems!" "Lower all taxes and corporations will flood to the state of Kansas despite Kansas sucking!" It... never really works out. (Though persecuting landlords is super tempting, ngl.) That said, if instead someone is advocating for a single solution not as a "fix all problems" sort of thing, but as a "this will massively improve a lot of different problems" sort of proposal, it's okay to be more open minded and offer their arguments more time and brain space. (For instance, Thomas Piketty's advocacy for a return to powerful progressive income taxes in Capital in the 21st Century? He doesn't present it as a cure-all, but rather as a difficult to implement policy that would have significant impacts on wealth inequality, and offers an extreme degree of evidence. Agree or disagree with him, he's certainly not trying the "one weird trick" approach. (Though I should note that it's hard to disagree with the sheer scale of his evidence.)
• Trying to to design an economy based off a niche economic theory, like Georgism, for your PF world without sitting down and doing your research first: Really do your best to understand how it could go well, disastrously, or weirdly. It could work out fine, even great, in some situations- a PF system where magic power is based off magical "ownership" of land that supplies the owner with mana, for instance, could integrate well with Georgism, but you've really got to know what you're doing to stick the landing. (This sort of speculative worldbuilding is the one time you shouldn't bully Georgists. They're just so... bullyable.)
• Treating humans as rational economic actors: Bad idea. Humans are irrational as hell, lol.
• Basing literally any of your ideas off those of Ayn Rand: lol. lmao.

• If you promise economic fantasy, deliver economic fantasy! Same thing as any other narrative promise- you don't keep it, your readers will feel betrayed.
• It's okay to create the illusion of an economy! Seriously! You don't need to plot out an elaborate economic system, you can just leave hints and clues that let the reader puzzle it out to the degree they wish. Just keep what hints you do describe logically consistent and well thought out! Like: What products can be found at the market? How far away do they come from? Is bargaining common, or are there consistent prices? Do consistent weights and measures exist, or is that always a source of frustration for folks? Are taxes in coinage, in product/produce? And if they're in the latter, is it a percent tax (one third your wheat crop!) requiring expensive monitoring and enforcement, or is it a flat rate (two bushels an acre!) that can punish farmers for bad crops but is much cheaper?
• Don't necessarily try to make your MC the leader of a large firm! You can, it can be fun, but there are plenty of other, often easier and more satisfying, paths to writing economic fantasy! Like, how does someone in the middle of a democratic revolution against a magical monarchy experience the economic shifts?
• Remember: a government's ability to control an economy, to whatever degree, is strictly limited by the amount of information they have about that economy! Legibility is power!
• Read quality economic fantasy outside PF and LitRPG. J. Zachary Pike's Orconomics, Seth Dickinson's Masquerade series, etc, etc.
• Read more about actual economics. Basic economics texts are great here!
• Then read a bunch of stuff critical of basic economics, because economics as a science is full of crap. For instance, there's STILL folks teaching that coinage and commerce arose out of barter, despite the fact that evidence of barter has never shown up in a pre-coinage society! Pre-coinage societies almost universally use complex social credit and debt systems. (Read David Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years for more on this. Fantastic book, has inspired quite a bit of SF/F.)
• If you stumble across a disagreement between theoretical economics and empirical economics, side with the empiricists! If theory disagrees with reality, theory needs to be the one to bend. (In general, empirical economists are just in a whole different league.)
• If you stumble across a disagreement between economics and anthropology, or economics and history, or economics and literally ANY other science... probably side with the other science. Economics is in a fairly rough state these days, folks, for... long, complicated reasons ranging from philosophy of science issues to good old fashioned corruption.
• And, ABOVE ALL ELSE: Spend the time to figure out HOW your progression system will affect the economy! Doesn't need to be perfect, but you need to consider how magic will affect things like: Food production, shipping and logistics, crop yield, bank vault security, counterfeiting (illusion magic's impact on the economy? Potentially huge!), healthcare quality and access, public heath measures (even more important than healthcare!), the presence or absence of insurance industries, how the use of various materials like gemstones as magic components would affect their price, magic's impact on ursury/credit, its impact on contract enforcement (if tracking magic is stronger than concealment magic, it gets a lot harder to renege on a debt, and vice versa), its impact on capital accumulation, its impact on precious metal supply (divination magic or transmutation magic could absolutely flood the market for gold and or silver, crashing its price!), and much much more! You don't need to answer all of these specific questions- rather, you just need to give the reader confidence that YOU have spent time considering how inhabitants of your world would try to make a living with magic.

Do I (28F) need to worry about my boyfriend's (24M) friendship with his professor (25F)?

My bf (24M) became friends with his former professor (25F), sometime last year - I don't know what to make of it. They seem to be friendly and talk consistently every week, and from what he tells me, it's usually very surface level. Sometime last year after the course ended, my bf, his professor, and some of his male classmates went somewhere to eat together. My bf brought up that he was going to be attending an event (plastic modeling show), and his professsor showed interest and invited herself to the event and asked if she could stay at his airbnb with his friends. My bf and his friends were all OK with it.

I unfortunately couldn't attend the event, but from what my bf told me, he and a few of his friends met up at their airbnb. That same day, his professor comes to my bf's airbnb and tagged a few of her girl friends along (I believe they all stayed in the same place). The next day, they go to the event, went to a bar afterwards and got drinks. A lot of them (except my bf) got pretty drunk and my bf took the liberty of being the designated driver for his professor and her friends. His professor won some model kit from the event, and even in her drunken state, asked my bf if he could stay up with her to work on the kit together. From what my bf tells me, nothing else happened that night.

After the event, everyone from that group created a group chat and they continue to plan and talk about future events together. Since then, my bf and his friends had met up with his professor and got to meet his professor's fiance at an anime convention and it sounded like they all got along well. His professor continues to express interest in other events and it sounds like she may be attending another event with my bf and his friends in the near future.
I trust my boyfriend and don't think he is hiding anything from me. Honestly speaking, I think it's hard for me to understand their friendship as it is his professor. I've had a conversation with him on this, and he's let me know that I have nothing to worry about. I would like to hear other's opinions and see what ya'll think of this friendship? Is this something I need to be concerned about or is it really nothing?
Thank you all!
\Edit: the professor was my bf's former professor. She is classified as an adjunct faculty and works as an accountant as her full time job (which explains why she is a young professor).*
\My bf has not graduated college yet and is still a student at his university.*

Relevant Comments:
You should go to one of the events with him:
"I do struggle with social anxiety so it makes me uncomfortable to be sharing a space with a lot of unknown people. I am hoping to go to the next event though since it's local."
Her relationship with students is grossly unprofessional:
"I'm totally with you - I am also quite confused of her choice of "friends". I am not sure why of all places, does she choose to share an airbnb with her former student and to be drunk with them. She is classified as an adjunct faculty, so she is a professor but is part time (she works full time as an accountant). The whole situation feels weird to me."
Clarification:
Commenter: You say “his professor” what is their specific academic connection? She taught him once years ago and now they’re roughly equals and friends? Or she’s his primary support for a PhD? Or what?
OOP: The first option - she taught him last year and now are now friends. He is no longer in a course with her. I totally understand how it's possible for students and their professors to be friendly, but i've never heard or seen of a friendship where you consistently talk and hang out together so casually.
So she's no longer his professor- they are two adults of the same age and power level:
"It kind of gives me the same vibes like if a student graduated HS and is friends with their young teacher (obv not the same thing, but a student-teacher relationship is there). I think as a teacher, you should still uphold that level of professionalism and mentorship, even if you are no longer the student's teacher.
I also want to note that they are technically not "equals" since they're both in relationships. She can't be acting however she wants with former students."

Update: my boyfriend and I had a more heart-to-heart talk regarding his teacher and he recognizes that it crossed some of my boundaries. He believes that she may be behaving the way she does because when she hangs out with her fiance's friends, she gets bored with them (and may possibly be seeking attention from other people?). Several weeks later, my boyfriend had a conversation with his college instructor regarding their friendship and told her how I didn't feel comfortable of their friendship and how he thinks they should keep communication at a minimum. She brought up how she understands because her fiance also had an issue with how she chose to share an airbnb with my bf. She mentions to my boyfriend that she sees him as a brother and that's why she feels really comfortable with him, but that she will try to respect my boyfriend's wishes of keeping conversations at a minimum.

Well, even after that talk, she continues to still message my boyfriend weekly on random life updates. And because she is also part of my bf's chat in discord, one of his friends invited her to attend another plastic modeling show (it occurred recently) and dinner. Since she accepted the invitations, I chose to attend as well so that I could personally meet her. The dinner occurred first and it was very uncomfortable because she practically ignored me the entire night. When she joined us at the table, she greeted my bf but didn't say anything to me (even my bf noticed and got annoyed, but then introduced us). She got increasingly drunk throughout the night and was saying random stuff about my bf to his friends like "he could've been the best student in my class but it's cause he missed some assignments" and "[bf's name] gave me a 5 star review on rate my professor!". She ended up not going to the show, but my bf had a chat with his guys and they told him that they want to respect my feelings too and make it a guys' night next time.
I would like to hear other's opinions and see if you also think she is acting suspicious?

Relevant Comment:
She wants to have sex with your boyfriend. She's crossing major boundaries. Has he stopped conversation with her?
"I wouldn't be surprised if that is her intention cause there's def some shady people out there. I agree, she is crossing some professional and personal boundaries, and I think it's quite unusual behavior for any teacher to act like that. Yes, he has stopped communicating with her. She was consistently messaging him until last week...so hopefully she got the memo.

OOP: It happened on a girls' trip they went together. It was confirmed by my wife. Her friend told me she could not hold the secret of a sin anymore and decided to confess.About 4 months into being exclusive/couple(girlfriend and boyfriend). So, it's not before being boyfriend/girlfriend.Paper is basically an agreement with blank sections including custody, asset sharing and other marital things. I proposed my side to her and she is free to consult with a lawyer to propose her side. Both sides meet and come to an agreement. Then this agreement is proposed to a family court(in case of amicable divorce) to get appointment for the court case. I let her know beforehand that I am considering divorce and getting the draft agreement ready so she should also consult with a lawyer.

OOP: She has barely eaten since the ER visit and still in denial.

I understand blowing up a marriage for something happened 14 years ago is not logical

OOP: Thank you! She took the divorce/separation much better than we expected.