Why am I here?
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Why am I here?
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#2I don't ask this too hard, because not only do I know ahead of time that I probably won't like the answer too much, I don't have much reason to suppose I'll get it 'right' next time, either. Without any one all-consuming passion in life, the best I can do is change stuff and see what happens. Also, it's unclear what Mr. Sivers' financial independence status is, but I think that for most of us, wherever we go basically has to be for a job.
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#3Apologies for our second-rate internet connections. Hopefully we'll see > 5 Mbps download speeds to residential buildings within my lifetime.
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#4Apologies for our second-rate internet connections. Hopefully we'll see > 5 Mbps download speeds to residential buildings within my lifetime.
I got 30 Mbps (actual, on speedtest.net right now) fibre to the home from Orcon. Thanks to subsidized fibre rollout. :-)
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#5I don't ask this too hard, because not only do I know ahead of time that I probably won't like the answer too much, I don't have much reason to suppose I'll get it 'right' next time, either. Without any one all-consuming passion in life, the best I can do is change stuff and see what happens. Also, it's unclear what Mr. Sivers' financial independence status is, but I think that for most of us, wherever we go basicall…
Mr Sivers is very transparent about his financial situation:
http://sivers.org/trust
Summary: CD Baby was transferred to a trust then sold for $22m, the trust pays Mr Sivers 5% per year.
In his own words he has "enough".
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#6Apologies for our second-rate internet connections. Hopefully we'll see > 5 Mbps download speeds to residential buildings within my lifetime.
I got 30 Mbps (actual, on speedtest.net right now) fibre to the home from Orcon. Thanks to subsidized fibre rollout. :-)
It should go without saying that I'm incredibly jealous fibre isn't available in my part of the country.
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#7I don't ask this too hard, because not only do I know ahead of time that I probably won't like the answer too much, I don't have much reason to suppose I'll get it 'right' next time, either. Without any one all-consuming passion in life, the best I can do is change stuff and see what happens. Also, it's unclear what Mr. Sivers' financial independence status is, but I think that for most of us, wherever we go basicall…
Mr Sivers is very transparent about his financial situation: http://sivers.org/trust Summary: CD Baby was transferred to a trust then sold for $22m, the trust pays Mr Sivers 5% per year. In his own words he has "enough".
Part of the reason I haven't been writing much the last couple years is because I thought, "Ah, it's not fair for me to write about this stuff like moving countries on a whim."
But everyone's got their own version of this. My example is just one example.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I got 30 Mbps (actual, on speedtest.net right now) fibre to the home from Orcon. Thanks to subsidized fibre rollout. :-)
It should go without saying that I'm incredibly jealous fibre isn't available in my part of the country.
Yeah. I was really surprised. I was preparing for a less-online-life, then just as I we moved in, we got a notice that fibre was ready. Oh well.
I'll give you my wifi password so you can sit on the porch & surf all you want.
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#9I have just finished an excellent online course called "The Brief History of Humankind"[1]. It was really an eye opener for me. I always loved history, but all the arguments people made about why we need to study it never really resonated with me. The stuff about "not repeating the same mistakes", "not re-inventing the wheel", "learning from the past" just never made much sense to me. The real reason to study history, as it was brilliantly presented in the course, is not to learn from the past, but to get liberated from it. We study the past to learn about our present. How did we get here? Why are we here? Often, things we accept as "natural" or permanent, or "optimal" are just a result of decisions and events that occurred long ago in very different context.
This post is an excellent reminder that sometimes we need to do the same on the personal level. We need to look back at our past in order to understand our present and decide about our future.
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#10I don't ask this too hard, because not only do I know ahead of time that I probably won't like the answer too much, I don't have much reason to suppose I'll get it 'right' next time, either. Without any one all-consuming passion in life, the best I can do is change stuff and see what happens. Also, it's unclear what Mr. Sivers' financial independence status is, but I think that for most of us, wherever we go basicall…
Mr Sivers is very transparent about his financial situation: http://sivers.org/trust Summary: CD Baby was transferred to a trust then sold for $22m, the trust pays Mr Sivers 5% per year. In his own words he has "enough".
This comment is not really fair [1] but when he writes "I get the safety of knowing I won't be the target of a frivolous lawsuit, since I have very little net worth" I had to wonder. I did the math to see that translates to an annuity of over a million a year. I don't know about you but I tend to think that if one lives simply with just 'a good apartment, a good laptop, and a few other basics' then (even after taxes) one's net worth would probably be increasing fairly rapidly over time. Even on only a million a year! Guess I'm feeling very Mrs Bennett right now, though fortunately I have no daughters to thrust in his direction ;_)
More power to Mr Sivers who has made a great choice of new location in my humble, but biased, opinion.
[1] This is not really worthy of our hero D Sivers because as he notes 5% a year was apparently the minimum allowed.