His attention span won't be enough to stick with physics for longer than 4 weeks.. he should just apply his skills in building companies to hire a couple of people to work on cool stuff that he is excited about. A good approach is to find some smart grad students at a local university who are in electrical engineering probably since you have to know lots of physics to get there and say "hey i have some money, want to build some cool prototypes?" and the best part is you can just ask those grad students how all this physics stuff works and they will happily tell you whatever you want to know.
I am rich and have no idea what to do
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#22Wealth makes it even more difficult to figure out what to do with your life. It's almost as if you can either have wealth/comfort or purpose/fulfillment, but it's vanishingly rare to have both at the same time.
Yes, feels like the invisible hand selects people to get rich based on how unfulfillable they are and thus how likely they are to keep working after they get rich.
I understand this serves an inflation control mechanism in our highly unequal system. The wealthy have comparatively so much money that the system cannot afford them to spend like normal people would. It would put too much currency in circulation and cause massive inflation. The system needs the wealthy to keep investing in ventures to create more busy-work, filled with NPCs and insatiable people who will also create more busy-work if they get rich.
The system needs to keep the money circulating in a very tight loop. Its journey from the money printer back to government hands needs to be very short in order to allow the government and corporations to retain the increasing degree of control that they need to maintain the status quo.
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#23Wealth only makes it hard to figure out what to do with your life if you believe wealth is a goal.
Wealth is something that removes obstacles to figuring out what to do with your life. If you had "being wealthy" as the goal itself, no wonder you're now feeling aimless. Instead, you should have been living your life, and now you'd think "great, now I can continue doing what I've been doing, except I don't need to worry about money".
Work shouldn't be your life. At most, work should be an interesting thing you do for the challenge, and which you'd do even if you weren't getting paid to.
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#24Excellent! Find 5 people who need your help, advice and funds and give them both, but slowly. You will enjoy it.
I almost wrote young people, but any will do, if they are stuggling and are confused where you have clarity, you can be of immense help.
Maybe getting back with that amazing girlfriend wouldn't be bad idea, but that is beyond :) this post.
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#25You could make art, perhaps? Some people find that helps with developing purpose beyond the immediate.
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#27Excellent! Find 5 people who need your help, advice and funds and give them both, but slowly. You will enjoy it. I almost wrote young people, but any will do, if they are stuggling and are confused where you have clarity, you can be of immense help. Maybe getting back with that amazing girlfriend wouldn't be bad idea, but that is beyond :) this post.
I hear that Coach Jake also can help a lot ;)
https://completionistacademy.com/meet_coach_jake
for real though
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#29> NPC coworkers
I very much dislike the trend of calling other people NPCs.
When you feel tempted to see someone else as an NPC, it might be helpful to remember the concept of "sonder":
> the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/23536922667/...
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Something I always try to remember that has really served me well, from when I grew up dirt poor to eventually having success, is that life is hard for everyone in different ways and more often when I assume how easy or hard someone has it, I’m wrong.