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This is tangential to the article, but James being “a frequent commenter on his blog and a huge help to other readers” was my first sign that he was not mentally well. Immediately knew things would not go well for him in this story. People often say this as a joke, but I think it’s 100% accurate: Internet comment sections have a strong self-selection bias for the mentally unwell. I’ll include Twitter, Facebook, Reddi…
I think I do not want fame, but it's obviously easier to navigate some circles if your name is known: you don't have to introduce yourself, nor prove other people what you are worth. This works on many scales: from a small team at work, where it's much easier to co-ordinate if everyone knows each other's strong points. It's also great for arguments: if you know that a person is very knowledgeable on a topic, you won'…
I am well known in my field and it has all the benefits you speak of. But it’s not a large field. So I have none of the negatives that the article speaks of.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but what's good about being famous? I.e. what are the reasons to become famous?
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Why trying to become rich? Once you have enough money to have a great quality of life without stress, having more money isn't improving much your happiness. Sometimes it makes it worse. However trying to become rich can be very difficult, tiresome, and disappointing.
> However trying to become rich can be very difficult, tiresome, and disappointing. Some people enjoy making money regardless how much wealth they already have.
My advice (not famous person): If you want to “try before you buy” the famous lifestyle perhaps try to get comfortable at night clubs and festivals. Once you kind of learn how that dynamic works and you can get the most attractive people there to pay attention/dance/party with you, you will see a lot of the positives and negatives that come with the territory. Beautiful, heartless women. Jealousy. Needless power posi…
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> Kevin Hart was known as Lil’ Kev the Bastard until one of his early mentor told him to drop that nickname. This is also just a monumentally bad name. In comedy alone, there are plenty of people with nicknames or not-their-actual name: - Louis C.K. (Louis Székely) - Jon Stewart (Jon Leibowitz) - Larry the Cable Guy (Daniel Lawrence Whitney) - Mel Brooks (Melvyn Kaminsky) - Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman) - Tim Allen…
Many of those seem like pen names covering for ethnicity rather than preserving anonymity. I see Hungarian, Jewish, German, Polish...
The last time I wrote a mild critique about Tim Ferriss online, someone scoured the internet to reverse engineer my personal identity and sent an e-mail to my personal e-mail account to debate with me. (I have since switched to anonymous handles). I can only imagine what it's like for Tim Ferriss himself. If you're not familiar with Tim Ferriss, there are several reasons why he's more attractive to dangerous follower…
I moderate a discussion board with about 50,000 members and we see a decent chunk of this unhinged behavior. Maybe 10 to 20 people per year? If you have an audience of 10 million multiply that by 200.
You would expect the audience of this forum to be dull and well adjusted.
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This does not exist. The moment you have money there is people out there that want to take it. It has always been, there is this part on the Bible that says that when you have money, there will be robbers making holes in your walls to take it. That was thousands of years ago. It is human nature. For me, being really rich is that you know the way to make wealth(not money) when you need it. This knowledge is more usefu…
If you have a few millions in an index fund and are discrete about it, no one is going to take it. There are many rich people who live ordinary lives.
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I personally know some "law firms" (notice the quotes) that specialize in bogus class action lawsuits. They just gather whatever random evidence they can, from news paperclips to emails and then threaten big companies. Then quickly settle for ~700k-2M as a cash grab instead of going to court. Majority of big companies pay up instead of going to court. To cut costs, these firms also operate on only free interns and ma…
Seems like a nice side project