By the way, the last time I ran the numbers only about 10% of HN users turned out to be in the Bay Area.
> Maybe this weird era of SV-type a-social-life-and-sleep-is-for-pussies work mentality is actually starting the begin of its end. > Or not. Maybe we're fucked
Well, we are very smart here. We have all worked through challenges, adversity and naysayers and landed on the top.
However, we still have a long way to go.
We still have to ask ourselves - so what's next?
Each of us run FIRE simulations on our wealth, set our objectives on how much money to make next quarter so our conservative withdrawal rate on retirement still gets us the money we need to enjoy life.
Why don't we run simulations on what happens when we get there?
What do we do then?
Who all do we spend it with?
We can engineer complex systems that scale to a million users: we sure can engineer our own lives to scale to a dozen or so people if we give our future equal priority as the JIRA tickets on our plate this week.
Surely?
That last bit is a pretty interesting stat, though.
It's a measure of how closely you correlate with the typical HN reader and that itself changes over time.
I have made more friends just through HN than the 200 odd HN karma points I have.
Have learned infinitely more thanks to HN.
As a person who believes that gun, healthcare and education are unalienable rights, people have a very tough time agreeing with me on all things, and me with them!
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