In that case, it could be great if a few sentences were added that said
that: something like "the below contains a nested use of 'I' which seems
complicated, but all the alternatives are even more complicated
(because...)"

>
> Ruiting and I thought about this for a while , and the only alternatives
> we found were more complicated in other ways, so we settled on this... ben
>


>  Is there an alternate formulation for this expression that doesn't
> involve a second nested "I"?
>