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Ask HN: What kind of life do you dream about?

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Re: Ask HN: What kind of life do you dream about?

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One with the opportunity to meet different kinds of people (not online), less judgemental and more collaborative. A life with multidisciplinary educated folks who want to share knowledge rather than compartmentalize it. The ability to reach out with creative ideas in different networks of knowledge without being passed over as a non expert. Less algorythmicly automated, or more transparent automation so I can better…

What kind of stuff do you like working on?

Re: Ask HN: What kind of life do you dream about?

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I dream of owning two homes: one on the central coast of California somewhere between Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara, and one in Japan, ideally in either one of the western districts of Tokyo (like the Meguro or Setagaya wards) or in the Kanagawa Prefecture. As a US citizen my primary residence would be in California, but I’d go to Japan regularly. For contrast, I love the California Central Coast for its tranquility and its relative lack of drama, but at the same time I love Tokyo’s vitality and sheer convenience.

I’d like to be able to work as a computer scientist doing research based on my interests. I’d also like to be able to work on open source projects. I also want to occasionally teach part-time at a university, teaching courses in programming languages, AI, and operating systems. I’d like to do these things in such a way where there are no “publish-or-perish” pressures.

Right now I’m figuring out how to make this happen before I get too old to enjoy it; I’m in my early 30s.

Re: Ask HN: What kind of life do you dream about?

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One with the opportunity to meet different kinds of people (not online), less judgemental and more collaborative. A life with multidisciplinary educated folks who want to share knowledge rather than compartmentalize it. The ability to reach out with creative ideas in different networks of knowledge without being passed over as a non expert. Less algorythmicly automated, or more transparent automation so I can better…

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Re: Ask HN: What kind of life do you dream about?

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I just need a supporting wife and the basic building blocks would then all be in my hands. Then I could focus on my career, try to accomplish something beneficial for the world, and raise a family who I hope to install with all the wisdom that I collected in life so far.

You need to do that stuff for yourself to get the wife in the first place.

Yes, true. But at the same time people in good relationships are also more productive.

Re: Ask HN: What kind of life do you dream about?

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Pay off my mortgage, only 100k to go! Then I won't "have" to work.

Buy an acre close by to grow vegetables on to eat and share, I'll do this after I pay off my mortgage.

Exercise more, I'm lazy and I'm trying to get up earlier to exercise and play video games before my wife and daughter wake up.

Do a 4 day work week to spend more time growing vegetables.

I'd love to figure out what area of the technology stack I enjoy most, for now I'm a full stack engineer looking into backend engineering as a primary focus. Not systems level, but business logic level, and not frontend I'm a "that's good enough" guy, not a perfectionist. I'm learning Go.

Other than that I'm good I think. My work compensation vs responsibilities are perfect right now, I don't want a promotion. I like where I live, close to both of our families, hospitals, schools, and entertainment. Weather could be better but it's not the worst.

Re: Ask HN: What kind of life do you dream about?

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Isolate myself completely and never meet another human being ever again. Just me and my computer.

Peculiar that people would downvote my own subjective wish, that doesn't infringe on anyone else. I thought this was the kind of question that could have no wrong answers and thus no reason to downvote anything.
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