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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. We are talking about thresholds. He has advantages that may be applicable to If a person quit their job being a short, brown, woman and found happiness and people willing to help them, it is more likely to be replicated by a broader population. It's like an attractive guy giving dating tips
That's a double edged sword. I understand that he has advantages but don't you think those advantages would make him feeling even more of a fool if he was to waste them? On the other hand you should also consider the emotions of uncertainty, fear and confusion that he had to overcome. Everyone everywhere attempting something similar would face similar emotions which are not at all trivial to overcome. The fact that h…
Then he shouldn't advise others to "Quit your Job".
It should have been titled "I Quit My Job"
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#203Tried this. Quit and lived a truly romantic life for 2 years. Most happy time of my life - really. But my ventures didn't succeed. With no partner or family to fall back on, I did contract development to not piss away savings. Hated the work, ran out of novelties to indulge in my free time, and became severely depressed. Suggesting that anyone other than himself should do this is naive. "Do what most people are doing…
What did you do at the end of the two years? Were you able to move back into a full-time position successfully?
Yes, I peeled myself out of bed to leetcode and got back into full time. It wasn't fun.
I was pretty confident I could get back in, that was the safety net that let me walk out of a job with nowhere to land.
Honestly didn't imagine I'd use it, and I don't love it. But it beats the alternative right now. My entitlement was through the roof :) I'm more grounded now.
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#204The author is Wolf Tivy, a cofounder of Palladium Magazine. Palladium Magazine is funded by Peter Thiel. The other cofounder of Palladium is Jonah Bennett; he now works at a stealth web3 startup and he says on his website he’s a political moderate. However, he also used to work at Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller and pal around with white nationalists and neoreactionaries. He resigned from Palladium after those ties and several hateful emails came to light: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/04/emails-reveal...
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#205This article resonates with me quite a lot especially after two years of repeated lock downs and travel restrictions, I reflected on my purpose more than ever during this period.
I came to realize that the most valuable possession I have is my time, that life is exceedingly short and that we can only really dedicate ourselves to one project at a time.
So, I reduced my hours down as a swdev to a handful of days every few weeks to pay the bills and maintain a humble quality of life and began building my own project relating to electronic music instruments.
The result is that I've become a much better engineer, learning embedded Rust, circuit and PCB design. These are skills I could never have learnt in my siloed web-development job, despite the pay being very reasonable.
But most importantly I am happier, less stressed, feel more connected and confident I'm building a vision for my own future that I can see myself doing into old age.
And I'm happy to announce that my first Eurorack instrument is in its final stages, it may not be an immediate financial success but life isn't about avoiding perceived failures, its about having a great time and pushing your own self-imposed limitations.
At the end of the day everyones path through this world is different, we all come from different backgrounds and we all face different obstacles and challenges, its important to stay true to whatever is true for you. Just don't accept a pay-check because society tells you to.
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#206Can't decide if I think he's trying to start a cult, or the next wework.
Neoreactionary IDW cult, but gussied up as respectable long from journalism. It’s worth doing research about Palladium.
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#208I was nodding along until i reached:
>Yes, even the bane of Darwin’s faith—the humble ichneumon wasp that lays its maggots inside the living bodies of caterpillars to eat them from the inside and burst out on maturity like some alien xenomorph—is a beautiful creature with a sacred task. Like many parasites, its role in the great chain of being is to test the health and defenses of its caterpillar host population. Its predation weeds out the sickly, preventing the much uglier injustice of collective weakness and disease, and spurring the evolution of stronger and even more beautiful life. Even fearsome Nemesis, born from chaos via night and darkness, is ultimately the hand of God and the minister of justice. Even the supposed exceptions to justice prove its rule.
Which sounds like a self-indulgent justification to hurt others for your own gain while still being able to sleep at night.
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#209So this is the male version of the trophy spouse stereotype. Focuses on lifting and courting, has an education just to check off a box, writes pseudointellectual drivel to pass the time. Just as likely to be replaced by a fresher model in a few years.
Please don't post this sort of snarky internet attack to HN. It's not the culture we want here, and it's against several of the site guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Serious question: Palladium’s other cofounder is a white nationalist neoreactionary. Is one degree of separation from white nationalism sufficient distance for HN culture?
It is very hard for me to see such dross posted and discussed seriously, earnestly, when everything I’ve been taught about critical thinking as a hacker is to be skeptical, whether of function return codes, technical documentation, or people writing and/or funding obscure online long-form magazines with strong ties to white nationalism/IDW/alt-right/neoreactionarism. As a DC resident, one year after Jan 6, it’s dismaying to see Palladium on the front page, and discussed so credulously here.
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#210"If you lose everything you own, you generally still have your network and skills" I get the general call to action that those who have excess resources should leverage that to take big risks, but this really undersells the possible consequences of losing everything you own. No, you don't always keep your network and skills. Sometimes, you lose everything. You lose friends from fallout or you belatedly realize that y…
It smells like privilege. That isn't to say that the OP was protected regardless. But the mindset that lets you do this is a mindset that comes from a background of abundance. Where you can always get another job if you want one, where you always have friends or parents who will bail you out or give you what you need. A background where things just always seem to work out.
I mean maybe, but hn has a primary tech audience. I bet 70% of us here could quit our job, take some risks,go bankrupt, get a new job, all with only mild consequences.
Yes that's privilege and it doesn't apply to everyone but its not an obscure level of privilege. You don't need to be a multimillionaire to have it.