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One of my favorite quotes from Munger > It’s very important to not put your brain in chains too young by what you shout out. From his speech at Harvard in '95, he's talking about how loudly proclaiming something, shouting about it even, locks our brains into this, making us resistant to contradictory ideas, regardless of evidence. This observation has felt more and more important over the last decade.
Also responsible for the windowless college dorm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29038356
I don't understand the outrage over this. Are windows a major selling point of dorm rooms? When I was in college i don't recall dorm windows being that important. I was studying or elsewhere most of the time anyway.
Not every college student is an outgoing, life-of-the-party, loves hiking type. And the trend thanks to the ubiquity of screens means more and more teenagers are shut-ins. In which case, the deleterious effects of no sunlight and no fresh air are even worse, especially at a developmentally-important age.
But what is worse is the hubris of billionaires who think they know best. It's what Maciej Ceglowski calls the lack of imagination at the top. What do the billionaires of our society, our overlords, want for the rest of us? What are their hopes and dreams, their utopia? Elon Musk wants to terrorise Mars with nasty bacteria from Earth. Bezos wants to run driverless cars around the city to replace public transport. And copy Musk. Page and Brin want to cure ageing, cowards unprepared to die both of them. Dipshit billionaires want shitty things like AI assistants who see and hear everything, lithium cars instead of walkable cities and trains. They want us to have Tide buttons in our houses so we can order it like a Pavlovian monkey. Dipshit billionaires convinced we're living in a simulation. Assholes buying bug-out bunkers in New Zealand. Or fuckers like Altman hoarding gold by the tonne, and gas masks from the IDF, while they pillage and rape San Francisco and its former residents shit on the streets and then sleep there.
And now, they even want to take away our sunlight and our fresh air. Even though the architects telling them otherwise railed against the idea, and resigned. Hubris like this gave us open offices. They want their chattel to be well-behaved and do what it's told. Sit in your privacy free 1m2 'office', drowning in the din made by your fellow plebs, during the day, and sleep in your windowless prison in the night.
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so much envy and jealousy over someone's wealth that you must find ONE disagreeable/controversial thing from that person (Charlie munger was probably hard to do so for) and do some character assassination. maybe you should improve your way of thinking, you might live a healthier live.
If you point that out it's always called envy and jealousy.
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I actually agreed with his reasoning on this and don't think it was motivated by greed at all. Firstly it would have been cheaper for the students. But secondly and more importantly, the buildings did have windows, it was only the dorms themselves which didn't, but the reasoning for this was that were primarily built for sleeping so he argued they didn't need windows. And not requiring windows meant that each student…
Speaking as a person with an architecture degree, it is, in my opinion, plainly a completely stupid idea. I cannot imagine one person I have ever met with similar professional training who would consider it anything other than completely stupid. As a person who hasn’t paid any attention to his corner of the finance sector, this horrible dorm was my introduction to the man. My immediate conclusion was that he rose to…
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The funny thing is that since this guy died at 99yo it means that 30 years ago he was still an old 70yo man. Screws with my brain sometimes
30 years ago I was in diapers and barely aware of what was going on around me. This old man was still an old man. Youth really is fleeting.
So is all of life.
Signed, a 60 year old
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i find it funny how the bryan johnsons of the world take like 123 pills every day and optimize all the fun out of life and we still dont really really know if it works or not and then old geezers like munger and buffett do whatever the hell they want and outlive everybody
Jack LaLanne died at 96 years old, yet my grandpa who's eaten tons of Taco Bell for most of his life is alive at just a hair from that age. I wonder what people will think about the obsession with "longevity" in the likely outcome of David Sinclair or Andrew Huberman dying in their 80s or earlier.
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so much envy and jealousy over someone's wealth that you must find ONE disagreeable/controversial thing from that person (Charlie munger was probably hard to do so for) and do some character assassination. maybe you should improve your way of thinking, you might live a healthier live.
No billionaire earned his money but got it by exploiting others, especially if you make your money through investments. If you point that out it's always called envy and jealousy.
only the young and feeble minded live in absolute
"exploiting others...if you make your money through investments"
the covid shot that saved your life was supported by investments