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I'm feeling the same. I think it's very common. That's what motivates people to go above and beyond and try to be financially independent - as the alternative is having very little…

Regarding falling asleep - I've noticed an interesting phenomenon in myself. Usually it takes me around 30 minutes to fall asleep, during which period I seem to gradually mellow, m…

> Even Russia did kind of ok. That may be true from 10 thousand miles away. Upon closer inspection, there's a huge difference in current wealth and standard of living between Russi…

> it made me realise you can generally achieve the things you want in life if you focus on them I'd be cautious here; video games are designed, artificial worlds where difficulty l…

> What would happen to you in the workplace if you behaved like a Westerner and looked for opportunities to contribute to others' priorities, praised others' work, and shared your …

I agree with most of this (I'm a Pole, currently living in Poland). I'd say that we're closer to the world norm and the Westerners are the outliers - universal wealth on an unprece…

> How to get into those heavily engineering oriented firms, like JPL or NVidia, doing the low level stuff? Maybe first try to talk to someone who does that kind of work, to see if …

My (anecdotal) observation is that this big4 "professionalism" is mostly a self-imporant delusion (probably imprinted into people by years of company culture and trainings), and th…

My view is the opposite - Poles are more honest (which usually translates to - more whiney) at their jobs than Western people, where centuries of capitalism have taught people that…

For those of you who have experience working on projects on large projects that are technicaly novel and challenging (ex. operating systems, browsers, database engines, game engine…