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I'm trying to add a ping pong table to a park next to my house. Got like 2k of the 5k i need so far. After that probably will try to get a dog fence and a pickleball court.
Presently, I believe client-side web, where computing represents itself as DOM (ex: react-router) serves as a good base to start to work from, where we can build more elements that help us view/examine/operate on the other elements.
My entire life is based around the academic route. I fell in love with a girl whose great desire in life was to settle securely in one place and have a family. To have a 9-5 job where she could spend the rest of the time in leisure with the person she loves, who presumably would also have a more laidback career. This is the opposite of the life of an academic. Stress, poor schedules and constant intense work and study. A professor who I deeply respect worked from 6AM to 11PM, 6 days a week for most of his post-doctoral years. I personally love the intensity of an academic life and working at breakneck pace is something I deeply enjoy.
Recently, I chose my scientific career over her. I suppose that I will be wondering my entire life whether I made the right choice.
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Statistical mechanics, molecular simulation and high performance computing. That is the centre-point of nearly all of my effort in life. Nearly everything I do is based around getting a deeper understanding of this field or being able to employ my understanding more effectively. My entire life is based around the academic route. I fell in love with a girl whose great desire in life was to settle securely in one place…
I had lists like yours in the 1990s, but working to make rent eventually expanded to use up all of my time. Now I practice meditation and stoicism, work on myself with bodybuilding and kickboxing, but have no expectation that things will improve.
That said, I didn't know about manifestation, or such basic principles as the difference between reason and meaning. So I believe that I inadvertently shifted into this difficult reality. In the end, all that matters is consciousness and being alive. So I silenced my inner monologue, experienced ego death and the dark night of the soul, and am putting my energy into reconnecting with love for all things. Practicing non-attachment and moving with the flow of life as things unfold with divine timing.
Loosely, imagine if everything was the opposite. Imagine if there were no billionaires, just rising median incomes and UBI. No dogma, no politics, just living life in peace. Being able to self-actualize and invent. Not.. whatever all this is. That's why I dream to let it all go and shift into the new age.
I'm writing software to help people Recover from drug addiction. I expect to be doing it until I pop my clogs. The coroner will need to rub "YTЯƎWϘ" off my cheek.
https://logictrader.xyz - Automated trader, right now for crypto/Binance only, but plans to expand to other crypto exchanges and then stocks. Rules help to stop people making mistakes in trading.
I "do only what only I can do", which in practice mostly means grand-scheme-unimportant things for the animals (with people as a subset) in my life.
Professionally applied over a lifetime focused on domestic & international commerce.
These are things I will not be retiring from.
When the ships get really big there will always be a situation where it's most valuable to have uniquely deep experience, now more than ever over a greater number of decades.
Many other unrelated and unscientific things I will also continue for life as much as I can, but for work that's how simple it is.