one has to have honor for themselves
you may win the FIRE game but you've cost yourself the chance to be something you respect
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you may win the FIRE game but you've cost yourself the chance to be something you respect
if your game let's you do this without guilt then good on you
but, maybe there's a better route than escape...
turn work into something worth doing
2. poker
3. back up in case of emergency
never ask a new friend to hang in X, where X is days away.
instead just do, i'm heading to this arcade want to join?
or i'm at coffee shop now, want to stop by and catch up.
this is how you can turn casual associates into friends.
if someone cool i knew asked me to spend 2 hours with them i'd get nervous.
plus, if they know that you are cool even without them they are far more likely to join you.
Clearly you weren't a fit, which often times is barely related to your actually skill set.
Early in my career my bosses are people I would never hire today. This will be your future and you will look back at these people as silly at best.
the whole idea of regulation through enforcement is absurd, when did it become to hard to make laws?
why should companies guess at what will and won't be enforced based on one chairman's concoction.
though im nearly 20 years into my career i barely can predict where i'll be in one year, let alone five
for the first 10 years my only goal was to make more money and not hate work
not a great goal from a hiring manager perspective
as a hiring manager, i ask what folks like to do and see if that aligns with what we need them to do
i can't seem to ignore it and it bogs me down, i have to do so much too suppress my hatred of their banality
folks say im so wonderful in conversation but its more that if i let them talk, i suffer
thank you for sharing the sartre it's refreshing to see how true it is
others judge you, so you judge yourself, even if you don't care about them
covid was such a great relief to not have to interact with people
you can be normal on seven values but have one hang up and bam you're a weirdo
Soon you won't able to have savings in cash at all.
No wonder people are excited about crypto.
Their job is to regulate not allocate. They aren't here to pick winners or losers they only control who is allowed and not allowed to take money and from whom.
SEC protects investors cause investors from its perspective need protecting. It is like a father looking out for his kids. Some of us don't think we are kids that need protecting.
Maybe I'm naive, it doesn't seem like there's a desire for world domination. No political aspiration, unlike Sheryl Sandberg. Not implying she is evil or anything just highlighting another highly successful person.
Intelligence is necessary but not sufficient. In fact, being a little too smart is quite detrimental to success.
I almost want to say intelligence is orthogonal to running a company but that wouldn't be true. You have to have some intellect, anything above that is not that important.
On one end you have the sigma grind who work all the time and on the other those who don't do anything and complain.
Both are toxic in their own ways since accomplishment is so critical to self-worth. Yet, at the same time you have to listen to your body and rest.
I find that the happiest people don't read the hustle culture and just focus on their family and are happy with what they have.
The problem is some of us can't help but work so we have to accept that grinding is better than self-loathing. For some that's a false dichotomy, for others it is truth. That's sad.
I've used Tesla's products, so as a consumer I'm very grateful for it. I am not a direct investor in Tesla (ie., only via index funds).
The take I can't believe is the SEC should decide how capital gets allocated. Elon created a tremendous amount of value. Both for consumers and for investors. Does he sometimes do things that appear/are dumb. 100%. However, net-net he's been such crazy value add to humanity i can't see why we would want to take this man out.
Is the world really a better place where this man just sits on the beach and does nothing? I think not. You may counter and say, why doesn't he follow the rules like everyone else, well sometimes to get something special we need to make special exceptions.
I think i'm just trying to reconcile that your view is genuine given the age of your account. I'm sadden by this being a real take. We want creators. We want folks to build. It's hard to build to follow all the rules. There are soooo many.
I agree that some people value modesty, I hope those people won't stop the next ego manic from trying to change the world.
I'd equally be happy if we could clone Buffett, Gates, and Musk. We get what we get. Unless you want to build a rocket, we should respect these life enhancing men, despite their character flaws.
He's playing a game and he's winning. While not all his tactics sit well with me, he's created immense value for the world. We want this man to keep investing and running capital. The alternatives are just so much worse.
it's got the best charging network (in the united states).
they charge fast.
it goes vroom vroom.
solve a deep and painful problem and people will follow
give people meaning and purpose is why religion is so powerful
the best products look like religion (see tesla as an example)
the fans take on the identity of the product
speaks more to the human condition and our need to belong, the biggest fans are rarely healthy folks
incentives drives us
overpopulation was controlled by sacrifice and infanticide
you mentioned its an area you haven't focused on
i don't know your fitness level, but anything that makes you huff and puff a little sure feels nice
very few folks are comfortable being the [nerd, asshole, dweeb, etc] in real life. being labeled as not nice, will exclude you from social activity.
when people go out, they just want to relax and being critical is hard work, plus many of them know they are bad, so they shy away from it.
online your words is all you have, so you have to rep yourself harder to stand out.
in the real world, your looks can get you far in both directions.