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If you want to make an impact, nothing beats working with other people. Managing teams, starting a company with others, doing hobbies together.
Working with a team to solve a boring problem together can be more fulfilling than working alone to solve a complex problem. Don’t underestimate the value of the social component.
Trying to get promotions all the time sucks away your life, but when I started looking at work as just a way to get enough money to invest, and building wealth as my primary goal, my life got much easier.
As the ,,what to do with my life'' part: it doesn't really matter, I just do random stuff like everybody else.
Try getting a kid.
But only if you're vaguely OK with a trip that lasts ~20 years and has no exit option.
I never thought I’d go down the music path seriously but now it’s the only thing I can generate a sense of purpose from and I am enjoying it. Music is the perfect universal thing to unify all abstractions in life in a common core. It seems the ancients had this knowledge but over the years learning music became less and less mandatory and or important.
Music, I’ve come to learn, _is_ the universal language between all things and connects to everything in a very real way to such an extent it can show the relation between abstract models in a tangible way because it’s the bridge between realities. For instance color, geometry, frequency, scales, and ratios/celestial orbits. They all integrate (have in common with music).
Sentience etymologically is a Being which feels; to feel is to aware of vibrations from frequencies, music is the experience of integrating all the senses into one.
Just my thoughts and experience. Feel free to ignore.
You gotta keep looking around — without desperation, but with curiosity. Charity, chess, spying for New Zealand, exploring nudism and Rust — until you've tried everything it's too early to feel bored.
I'm clinically depressed / adhd, slowly finishing up my savings, and not sure if I'll be able to recover and start earning and enjoying life. Started posing at HN to not lose the ability to speak.
Don't be me. It starts with small things, and then entraps.
Socialize with positive people, care about your body, run like Phoebe from 'Friends', and never ever allow anyone — including yourself — to doubt you. Fuck everybody¹, enjoy everything.
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¹ Metaphorically speaking.
You have a lot of free time, figure out a way to use your time, knowledge and resources to impact others in ways that really matter.
I started making music. I picked guitar and electronic music production. It seems to be the nexus of all the things I found interesting in my life: creativity, esoteric knowledge, geometry and mathematics, language, technicality. I never thought I’d go down the music path seriously but now it’s the only thing I can generate a sense of purpose from and I am enjoying it. Music is the perfect universal thing to unify al…
Some good courses to try that you probably missed while aiming for the software career: philosophy, the arts, history, physical sciences, shop classes, sports/dance/martial arts.
Ultimately the goal is to find the thing you can study forever, or some kind of stewardship role that you're comfortable with. When you solve a lower order of struggle in life that frees you up to work on a higher one. But you have to grow into that kind of thing. Life never really gets easy.