Most of this reads like the pseudo-inspirational BS that people post on LinkedIn. Things that seem deep, but are so blindingly obvious and/or incredibly broad that they are of absolutely no value to the reader.
Cheat Codes for Life I Know at 36 That I Wish I Knew at 26
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#12Most of this reads like the pseudo-inspirational BS that people post on LinkedIn. Things that seem deep, but are so blindingly obvious and/or incredibly broad that they are of absolutely no value to the reader.
Cheat 37: people will upvote based on the title, not the content, regardless of education or social status.
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#13For number 4, what should one do other than work? Number 6 seems to be their answer, but that's still "work" just not at a salaried job. For number 6, any details on avoiding taxes? Are they in a different jurisdiction? My experience is that self employment taxes (FICA), and the need for benefits makes it so you cannot earn half as much and still take home more.
Have goals and people that aren't work related. Pursue your own personal interests instead of focusing on your work or career. He kinda gives it away at the end:
> 36. When you stop having big dreams that’s when you’ve died, despite not being buried yet.
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#14> When you work for yourself there’s flexibility with how much tax you pay, and most importantly, when it must be paid.
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> That means you can earn half the salary from a job and still take home more money. Genius.
Either this guy doesn't understand how income tax works, or I don't. (Or he's just lowkey recommending tax fraud)
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#15I'd expect that somebody who believes "The world wants you to be normal. F*ck being normal. That’s when being extraordinary becomes impossible." would probably treat service workers poorly (they're normal, F*ck them) but instead there is the advice "Watch how people treat service workers. It tells you a lot about their character."
I feel the opposite, being normal is highly underrated.
What does normal even mean?
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#16Most of this reads like the pseudo-inspirational BS that people post on LinkedIn. Things that seem deep, but are so blindingly obvious and/or incredibly broad that they are of absolutely no value to the reader.
Some of it is self evident from a young age, the rest seems silly or plain wrong (earn less but take home more...that's not normally how tax works).
Any links for actual useful and rarely shared cheatcodes/heuristics for a positive life?
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#17I'd expect that somebody who believes "The world wants you to be normal. F*ck being normal. That’s when being extraordinary becomes impossible." would probably treat service workers poorly (they're normal, F*ck them) but instead there is the advice "Watch how people treat service workers. It tells you a lot about their character."
Is there an assumption here that all service workers are "being normal"? Nowhere in this blog is there a point about treating others differently for "being normal".
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#18For number 4, what should one do other than work? Number 6 seems to be their answer, but that's still "work" just not at a salaried job. For number 6, any details on avoiding taxes? Are they in a different jurisdiction? My experience is that self employment taxes (FICA), and the need for benefits makes it so you cannot earn half as much and still take home more.
Have goals and people that aren't work related. Pursue your own personal interests instead of focusing on your work or career. He kinda gives it away at the end: > 36. When you stop having big dreams that’s when you’ve died, despite not being buried yet.
How do those dreamers support themselves?
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#19For number 4, what should one do other than work? Number 6 seems to be their answer, but that's still "work" just not at a salaried job. For number 6, any details on avoiding taxes? Are they in a different jurisdiction? My experience is that self employment taxes (FICA), and the need for benefits makes it so you cannot earn half as much and still take home more.
If you're self-employed, the income can go into the business and you can pay yourself based on what you actually need, while the rest of the income gets put back into the work/business. Even when taxed, those taxes that aren't individual income are taxed much lower than income taxes, so you can "avoid" paying taxes directly until you actually reach a point of profitability where you want to extract that wealth from the business you've grown (aside from the money you actually need at the time, which would still come out of the company to yourself in the form of payroll).
Not an accountant, so I'm likely not perfectly stating the point.
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#20Most of this reads like the pseudo-inspirational BS that people post on LinkedIn. Things that seem deep, but are so blindingly obvious and/or incredibly broad that they are of absolutely no value to the reader.
Came to the comments expecting the typical HN putdown on top, was not disappointed.