Shugarl

Fooling around with things helps, but that's not really different to the "Ask yourself more questions" kind of advices.

Even if I was fooling around with, say, a 3 modeling of a bed, why would I retain any information I didn't genuinely want to know ? Questioning my own understanding of things doesn't help either, as realizing that something doesn't work the way I thought it did, doesn't necessarily make me care about finding out what the truth is.

>I’m not sure I agree. Emotions are a form of personal confusion. Curiosity is intellectual. More tied to unemotional ignorance and lack of rigidity towards formal expectations

I didn't get that, mind expanding ?

I disagree, you can win debates regardless of whether or not your views are correct. A good debater with a wrong view will "win" against a bad debater with a correct view.

I know that works to make friends, when you drunkenly, randomly start to talk to other people, or jump into conversations. But how does it work for meeting the opposite sex ? Being drunk for these kinds of things usually isn't good

As an adult: it's 80% because I'm afraid of looking incompetent in front of my peers.

It can be pretty painful to see people systematically dismiss anything you say, or always seek out a second opinion, for no other reason that they have a hard time believing anything reliable can come out of your mouth.

I won't let that happen again.

The first time I looked for a job, it took about 11 months. 11 months of learning about companies that I'm not interested in just so that I can pretend to be excited to join them, pretending to be interested in the field they're in, of practicing leet code questions, of being asked to redo my resume in a specific way, of being asked to build web apps and do code challenges before being able to have a discussion with someone in their IT team, of showing up at interviews where a recruiter oversold my profile, and so on...

Because people who weren't in the loop used to be fairly confused/hostile to Streamers and YouTuber (That's not a real job, and all that). It also helps not being associated too closely with their peers ('Oh, so you're like that Jake Paul guy ?')

I always thought that if something's bothering you, it's much easier to change yourself in order not to be bothered anymore than it is to change the world so that the thing bothering you doesn't exist.

It's easier to be careful with where and when I go somewhere than it is to create a world where I won't get mugged/assaulted. It's easier to be content with the life I live than it is to become rich. And so on...

Good if it's useful to us humans, bad if it's harmful.

>. Raytheon or Palantir employees, where the delta in morality is much greater, but convincing people to go from neutral-ish to good is harder than convincing them to go from bad to good.

Did palantir do shady things ? I now that the CEO got in trouble for looking down on poor people ( or something along those lines ?), but is there more ?

Is it me, or does everyone here have a different definition of what n-th order thinking means ?

Ooh, interesting. Up until now, I'd just imagine myself solving the problem manually, then describe that with code. I'll try to imagine building a machine to see how it feels

The great majority won't. But a part will, which is likely to be a problem.

But you need money to research stuff. And the ones who gives you money are expecting a return on their investment.

True, but I absolutely hate having to ask my network anything. I'd gladly help them, but I despise having to advertise what's going on in my life.

> At the end of the day, if you don't know these basic things about a company, why have you applied for a job there?

Because I need money, and you might be the 3XXth company I've applied to. Job hunting when there's something unappealing about yourself can be quite a pain, but rent is still due at the end of the month.

> lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency toward a solitary or sheltered lifestyle, secretiveness, emotional coldness, detachment and apathy.

> Affected individuals may be unable to form intimate attachments to others and simultaneously possess a rich and elaborate but exclusively internal fantasy world.

> stilted speech

> a lack of deriving enjoyment from most activities.

> feeling as though one is an "observer" rather than a participant in life.

> an inability to tolerate emotional expectations of others,

> a degree of asexuality.

>idiosyncratic moral or political beliefs.

> Symptoms typically start in late childhood or adolescence.

Jesus, TIL I might have a Schizoid personality disorder.

> I think it's important to realize that many people don't enjoy it either but just use it as a social grease to move into more deep conversation or connection.

I disagree. I'm like the author, but I do make sure to always listen when I'm with a group or if I'm around people. And either they're really good at hiding the deeper conversation, more interesting from me, or they just tend to smalltalk for the sake of smalltalk.

> Most of the things- and I mean like 99.9%- that people do or talk about, I just have no interest in (or actively disagree with).

Are you me ? Though I found happiness in my isolation. It feels much better than having to fake my way through social interactions 24/7

I feel like most people in this thread have been explaining why

Well Google Map still knows where I am when my VPN is activated. So I'd say yes, unless VPNs on mobile are less reliable than on PC

> I remember the acronym CAR - Context, Action, Result. I form my answers in this framework to make a plan for how to get to the reply

I was looking for something like that to organize my thoughts when I speak. Thanks!

I thought this discussion was about games you play against other people ? Pokemon battles against anyone who know basic strategies are hard as hell

How does one think visually ? I've tried it, but I feel like I just think verbally first, and then try to imagine an image that represent what I just said in my head

You'll never be the most attractive person in the world though. Even if your SO think you're attractive, there's a huge amount of people they'd be more attracted to, if they had the chance to meet them.

In rural town, there's less competition.... But there's also less women.

For _multiple_ books. A book he wrote 6 years ago can still earn him some money, without him touching it.

...which are things you do every now and then, unlike a job, where you have to be there 5/7 days for a number of hours ?

Are you actually comparing regular SW engineers to the wealthiest people on the planet ?

I disagree with the other comments. Ever since I read this book years ago, I've been able to start reading daily, exercise regularly, clean my home almost daily, work on learning a new language daily (Japanese) among other things.

Total compensation.

It really annoyed me to not know what it meant, so I spend a bit of time finding that