I don't know how valuable the advice : "Hey, become an autodidact!" is.
Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life (2021)
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#42I don't know how valuable the advice : "Hey, become an autodidact!" is.
To become an autodidact, first, teach yourself to be an autodidact.
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#43> Each of us has the power, though, to make our experiences a bit less stressful and more enjoyable if we take advantage of the off-peak times when we have the freedom to do things on our own time. Some of my favorites include: going to the bar of a restaurant between 2–5pm when I’m the only person in the place and knocking out some work over an appetizer; going to museums (I live in DC, so there are a ton of great o…
Yeah. This article feels just a step away from saying "To live a happier life, just tell your parents to increase your allowance to 10k a week.".
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#44Bit ironic the anti-mimetic counter cultural artcle is written in full longform buzzfeed clickbate style.
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#45> Each of us has the power, though, to make our experiences a bit less stressful and more enjoyable if we take advantage of the off-peak times when we have the freedom to do things on our own time. Some of my favorites include: going to the bar of a restaurant between 2–5pm when I’m the only person in the place and knocking out some work over an appetizer; going to museums (I live in DC, so there are a ton of great o…
Most restaurants with bars are closed between 3 and 7, finished with lunch and busy prepping for dinner.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
For this article in particular the author could have cut the entire intro down to two sentences and then each of the 25 tips could be one or two sentences each. Nothing of value would have been lost, indeed, that's all I read of it. There's good ideas in here, but no one reads shit that isn't in dot points.
I read the whole thing, but yes, he doesn't have much to say that isn't obvious. And how is "deep silence" different from regular silence? I've been in an anechoic chamber, and find it peaceful, but I don't think that's what he meant. Useful wisdom that you don't hear much: - Spend less than you earn, and life will be good to you. (Franklin). - Do one less thing than you can do. - Minimize your therbligs until it bec…
By deep silence he probably means "having nothing to do and doing nothing", a rare luxury
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#47There is no anti-memetics division
Great ideas but a huge shit-mess. IIRC it’s a lightly-edited compilation of his SCP writings? I enjoyed Ra and Fine Structure much more.
Isn't the entire point of it to be a mess, and to be hard to parse, because the topic is hard? I found it to be one of the most deeply engaging things I've read for ages, precisely because I had to put it down after each chapter and process it.
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#48> Each of us has the power, though, to make our experiences a bit less stressful and more enjoyable if we take advantage of the off-peak times when we have the freedom to do things on our own time. Some of my favorites include: going to the bar of a restaurant between 2–5pm when I’m the only person in the place and knocking out some work over an appetizer; going to museums (I live in DC, so there are a ton of great o…
Most restaurants with bars are closed between 3 and 7, finished with lunch and busy prepping for dinner.
flippant comment that's provably false. id say more restaurants have happy hour exactly to create value during this slow time, than are closed.
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#49> The sooner you kill this beast within yourself, the sooner you can get to the real work of creating something that the market itself will validate Highly anti-mimetic then, so long as you're committed to entrepreneuring and being validated by the market. Wait, what?
well, the context is within entrepreneurship: it's under "don't participate in Shark-Tankification of worth." basically dont be a wantrepreneur seeking vanity metrics.
i do agree the essay is very capitalist centric, but maybe that's the best point: society is tracking 1:1 with commercialism these days?
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#50> Each of us has the power, though, to make our experiences a bit less stressful and more enjoyable if we take advantage of the off-peak times when we have the freedom to do things on our own time. Some of my favorites include: going to the bar of a restaurant between 2–5pm when I’m the only person in the place and knocking out some work over an appetizer; going to museums (I live in DC, so there are a ton of great o…
Most restaurants with bars are closed between 3 and 7, finished with lunch and busy prepping for dinner.
This is strongly regional, some do but most restaurants in more urban-ish US areas don't close between lunch and dinner in my experience. Had some culture shock in Europe when there's zero prepared food available for purchase in a whole town at 2pm.