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"Like many of you, I was raised in the background radiation of Calivinist thought"

Sorry -- you lost me in the first sentence.

That's fair, but if it makes you at all curious to learn what he means, you night find it rings true - if not for you, certainly people you know.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic

I feel like the concept of "protestant work ethic" has been coming up a lot lately. Make me wonder if this is going to be the stoicism of 2025.

I hope not. I, for one, don't view the Protestant work ethic in as positive a light as I do Stoicism.

also: "I also read Hackers & Painters at an impressionable age and was kind of a jerk about it for a while. This talk is about how despite this, I got better."

I've read H&P and a bunch of PG's essays. Unsure what conflict exists btw Graham's writings and the content of this guy's powerpoint essay.

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