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Re: Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died

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Post by mathgladiator »

avandekleut wrote: post #4
mathgladiator wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a good question. My home was recently destroyed by fire (not a total loss of dwelling, but 95% of contents due to smoke and water), and I'm quitting tech to accept being a rancher and body builder. I love tech, but tech doesn't love me. So, #yolo on to the next thing.

Good luck! Your username suits you.

Thanks.

I love math, and I regret not being able to usefully use it more. I don't regret leaving academia, but life is a mystery.

The next chapter feels... good and right.

Re: Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died

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Post by mathgladiator »

par wrote: post #6
mathgladiator wrote: post #3

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It's a good question. My home was recently destroyed by fire (not a total loss of dwelling, but 95% of contents due to smoke and water), and I'm quitting tech to accept being a rancher and body builder. I love tech, but tech doesn't love me. So, #yolo on to the next thing.

would love to follow your progress if you're going to be publicly blogging it (would be ironic, i know.) Also, really sorry for your loss. Was it the palisades fire?

I thought about doing a youtube channel, honestly. Both as a parody and a progress.

It's strange. I will probably get more love for making a video about my future barndo than my tech projects.

It was an electrical fire due to a 20 year old wire and an external flood light that has never worked.

Re: Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died

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Post by rayiner »

selimthegrim wrote: post #149
rayiner wrote: post #146

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I’m sure that’s true. Who were the pre-1965 south asians?

My father's mother's family. My mother is an 80s immigrant.

Sorry, I meant how did they come over? I don’t know there were any pre-1965 desis.

Re: Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died

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Post by mathgladiator »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #18
mathgladiator wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a good question. My home was recently destroyed by fire (not a total loss of dwelling, but 95% of contents due to smoke and water), and I'm quitting tech to accept being a rancher and body builder. I love tech, but tech doesn't love me. So, #yolo on to the next thing.

Sorry for your loss. But may I ask, about the comment "I love tech, but tech doesn't love me" Where does this really arise from? I have some theories and feel free to tell me which one is the right one:- 1)Does this arise from the fact that tech is excessively used to create AI coder assistants to take the coders out in the first place 2)Does this arise from the fact that you feel as if you are a working machine in a…

The simple version is that I'm a perfectionist that cares about deep understanding, and I had a good career that fit me well with distributed systems. However, at core, I'm curious and passionate in a way that requires management to smooth me over.

So, I didn't want to be in big tech anymore since the game to play kind of sucks. No matter what "they" tell you, at a certain point, every company drains real creativity for one reason or another.

I love coding, and I can even play the strategy game at the higher level (I 'retired' as a 'senior principal'). So, I could have a very cushy life in big tech, but my heart is to build and tinker.

Low and behold, I decided to wander and build a thing that I cared about. I built https://www.adama-platform.com/ , but I could never really get traction without in person friends. Honestly, I wanted to wander and build, but I found myself in a field alone with a lot of ideas.

The sheer effort to promote new ideas is... exhausting. It's just a stream of failure after failure after failure, and then my home was destroyed. I literally ran out of a burning building, and my priorities changed.

Now, I could probably recover my ideas since I was preparing a new marketing push and try to meet developers where the are ( https://adamawww2.adama.games/ ). The idea was to let my ideas power the stranger topological scenarios (like cron jobs). And, given my background, I could probably have credible success raising funds around "real time infrastructure" / "pub sub" / "gateway". The problem there is then I recreate the problem I was escaping, so why bother with that.

So, now I'm going to just build a barndo with a full gym and get super duper fit. I honestly think doing pull ups will make me feel 10x better than accomplishing anything in tech.

Re: Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died

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Post by mathgladiator »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #44
mathgladiator wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a good question. My home was recently destroyed by fire (not a total loss of dwelling, but 95% of contents due to smoke and water), and I'm quitting tech to accept being a rancher and body builder. I love tech, but tech doesn't love me. So, #yolo on to the next thing.

Just a heads up, this only works well if you have a nice cushion of cash to do it on. Someone with 30% tech ability will easily out-earn someone with 100% ranching ability. And have way more free time. And live way more comfortably. Don't be fooled, the greenest grass is in the tech sector (and finance too).

Yeah, but I already mowed that grass. It was nice, and I could retire in the burbs... now, I'm just going to give up on civilization and become a rancher. Maybe, I'll start an egg subscription business for my friends that is 100% cash base. I don't know.

It's going to be great.

Re: Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died

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Post by mathgladiator »

bluGill wrote: post #60
Workaccount2 wrote: post #44

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Just a heads up, this only works well if you have a nice cushion of cash to do it on. Someone with 30% tech ability will easily out-earn someone with 100% ranching ability. And have way more free time. And live way more comfortably. Don't be fooled, the greenest grass is in the tech sector (and finance too).

Ranchers make far more money than you think. They have to manage years where they are losing $100,000 per month, but the good years they make more than enough to make up for that. The hard part is getting started. You can't make a ranch work on just a little bit of land, you need thousands of acres of land in an area where you can get to all those plots every day. Getting bank loans on that means most ranchers start…

I'm going soft ranching as a hobby. Honestly, I want to get a few cattle which I control the inputs too 100% such that get 100% grass fed beef.

My profit is primarily driving down my costs as much as possible such that I can become self sufficient.

My wife and I are carnivores, so our diet is basically beef, butter, bacon, eggs. I'll start with raising chickens such that I can produce at least a dozen a day. Then I'll get beef, and I'll just buy bacon and butter.

I'm designing my barndo right now such that it has a simple living space for me and my wife, and then a big bro science gym where we can work out.

It's the dream right now that I'm clinging too since I'm moving forward. I lost all my stuff, and I'm waiting for insurance adjuster. Fortunately, I had a very good career and I'm in my early 40s, and I'm going to different stuff. I've always wanted land, so I'm going to do it. It's going to be great! (or, I'm deeply traumatized and using optimism to deny the reality of escaping a burning building :shrug: )

Regardless, we should be friends as I love to learn more this. My hope is that I can spend a few years recreating all the 4H knowledge, network with farmers, and just learn new stuff which... isn't tech.

Re: Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died

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Post by mathgladiator »

mathgladiator wrote: post #154
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry for your loss. But may I ask, about the comment "I love tech, but tech doesn't love me" Where does this really arise from? I have some theories and feel free to tell me which one is the right one:- 1)Does this arise from the fact that tech is excessively used to create AI coder assistants to take the coders out in the first place 2)Does this arise from the fact that you feel as if you are a working machine in a…

The simple version is that I'm a perfectionist that cares about deep understanding, and I had a good career that fit me well with distributed systems. However, at core, I'm curious and passionate in a way that requires management to smooth me over. So, I didn't want to be in big tech anymore since the game to play kind of sucks. No matter what "they" tell you, at a certain point, every company drains real creativity…

also, to prove my feelings. I tell HN that I'm quiting tech and I get a bunch of points. I post about my shit, and I mostly got nothing. (and yes, HN wasn't the primary place I tried to market, but still... it sucks hard)

I did a 270 lb benchpress, and I felt better doing that then coding... So, I'm going from tech bro to gym bro. It's going to be wonderful.

Re: Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died

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Post by nashashmi »

mathgladiator wrote: post #154
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry for your loss. But may I ask, about the comment "I love tech, but tech doesn't love me" Where does this really arise from? I have some theories and feel free to tell me which one is the right one:- 1)Does this arise from the fact that tech is excessively used to create AI coder assistants to take the coders out in the first place 2)Does this arise from the fact that you feel as if you are a working machine in a…

The simple version is that I'm a perfectionist that cares about deep understanding, and I had a good career that fit me well with distributed systems. However, at core, I'm curious and passionate in a way that requires management to smooth me over. So, I didn't want to be in big tech anymore since the game to play kind of sucks. No matter what "they" tell you, at a certain point, every company drains real creativity…

That’s how the business world of tech is. It’s not that tech didn’t love you. You were looking for a creator centric universe.

And that is how most professions are as well. You go to school for four years learning to do this one small little thing. You practice that for ten years in a professional scope. And you trade one practice for another, say management. And then you change.

I would think in parallel to your creativity, you could find another system for monetization in education. You could also find a third system in theoretical studies.

Re: Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died

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Post by Barrin92 »

boringg wrote: post #45
rm_-rf_slash wrote: post #2

Heart attack at 63. What a shame. Guy worked at the company longer than I’ve been alive and all he has to show for it is an inheritance and obituary. Makes you wonder what we’re working so hard for.

More like you are pushing your perspective out here. You think he didn't enjoy being in charge of an organization that was building some remarkable products and pushing the possibility of what humanity can build? I think maybe you would prefer sitting on a beach doing nothing but I bet you this person enjoyed what they were doing on the whole.

>but I bet you this person enjoyed what they were doing on the whole.

well given that the man just dropped dead of a heart attack at his daughters wedding at a relatively young age I'd maybe take that bet. I'm currently reading Evan Dou's book on Huawei and one constant among the leaders in that company seems to be mental and physical exhaustion, up to depression, chronic illness and suicide, virtually no time spent with family, and not enjoyment but an almost martial sense of loyalty to the company.

Running Western companies already doesn't seem to do wonders for one's mental health judging by some of the prominent figures, but East Asian giants sound even worse. I'll take the beach and my family over either one

Re: Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died

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Post by selimthegrim »

rayiner wrote: post #153
selimthegrim wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My father's mother's family. My mother is an 80s immigrant.

Sorry, I meant how did they come over? I don’t know there were any pre-1965 desis.

Stowed away in 1929 to NYC. A lot of Bengali and Punjabi Muslim sailors jumped ship there and in New Orleans to some extent (Google Fatima Shaik) and tended to marry Blacks and Latinos. On the west coast it tended to be more Sikh farmers.
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