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Comment by osigurdson | Hacker News Reader

Pure trash. Be yourself, emulate whoever you want (or no one). Do what feels right. If someone looks down on you for riding a bike to work (regardless of your current "status"), #1 they are idiots and their respect and admiration is worth zero and #2 choke them out :). Life is too short for such ridiculous minutia.

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Would love to set a 10 year reminder to check in on how this life strategy has worked out.

Right. Wow, look at me, I now have a cushy (soul crushing) job at the city just like my slightly wealthier neighbour. All life goals checked off now.

I knew you were someone who could afford to "ignore" social cues. I used to think the tech-type was not like that until I observed some common threads, at lest in the Bay Area (driving an EV or planning to buy one - likely a Tesla, Patagonia vests, loves to hike, has an Apple watch)

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I work in DevOps and check off literally none of the items you listed. I still get paid relatively well, and I don’t signal unless it’s required to maintain my job. I’m happy enough.

The next time you feel the need to "signal to maintain your job", try not signalling. I suspect you will end up with a better job.

Yeah. Look where this got Galileo. House arrest for the rest of his life. Bad call Galileo, you should have paid better attention to social cues! /s

Well... Copernicus did take a cue, he wrote his book and ideas and only published them when he was about to die (or postmortem I don't remember/can't lookup the details rn)

The world needs more milquetoasts like Copernicus and less tall poppies like Galileo! /s

Seems to work pretty well for me, and I'm not rich and never have been. But I've always been very happy not caring about what other people think or making an impression.

How dare you express anything that resembles sincere courage here. Elon Musk can afford that, but if others were to follow his lead, imagine how bad that would be for Big Tech management! Who knows, they might even get fired and replaced by one of these Elon Musk "imitators". What a horrible, horrible thought. /s

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