Wow.Poor baby!
I am rich and have no idea what to do
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#412Ok so this is what strikes me: he dumps his girlfriend and runs away to a mountain he humblebrags about climbing without training.
He talks about people as NPCs.
Maybe the only real thing in life is good relationships with other people, odly enough.
Now you have all this money and nobody to share it with? Where are your friends and family?
Now that the whole world knows you’re rich you’ll never know if they really like ‘you’ or just your money.
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#413The hardest part of getting what you want is figuring out what it is.
Denzel Washington's movie (he's the EP) The Equalizer says:
The two most important days are
the day you're born, and
the day you find out why.
Most people have other far less important yet far more deleterious desires.
As with all things human, the choice of path is ours alone, and we alone bear the fruits of our chosen journey while we tread it still.
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#414Same situation, I truly empathise because it really does seem to take a lot of purpose out of everything. What I’ve found is that you need to replace money/salary/financial success optimisation (assuming you spent a lot of your life and energy to this point focused on these, much like I did) with something else totally unconnected with being measured in that way. For me, I am focused on proving myself as a guitarist…
People need work to be happy. That doesn't have to be, say, office work necessarily: it can be making music full time, or volunteering at a hospital, or any number of other things. But you have to have something keeping you busy that makes you feel like you have a purpose.
You’re on the right track, but I think it’s a bit deeper than just needing something to work on or stay busy with. I effectively retired a few years ago and have spent the time since engaging in various “work” across the kinds of categories you mention. Yet, all of these efforts have carried a sense of purposelessness—a lingering question of whether any of it truly matters, especially knowing I could stop tomorrow without significantly impacting my wellbeing.
This contrasts sharply with the purpose I felt when I had less money and was struggling to build my business. Back then, everything felt deeply do-or-die meaningful. Now, no amount of exercise, goodwill, or intellectual pursuits compares in terms of providing that same sense of purpose.
I don’t think humans need the pursuit of money itself to be happy, but once the foundational needs in Maslow’s hierarchy are met, the higher levels often feel less urgent—and, paradoxically, less fulfilling. There seems to be diminishing returns from “work” as a source of purpose.
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#415I stopped working over twenty years ago and it was the best thing to ever happen to me. I spent thousands of days with my children, paid off my house, we drove brand new cars for the first time ever. Over time, I’ve just found things to do with my time. I try project Euler problems and I’m pretty interested in meteorology. The rest of the time, I just participate in things my kids are interested in or involved in, th…
Having kids gives your life purpose in a way almost nothing else can.
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#416The purpose of life is ultimately to acquire internal resources.
First, hunter-gatherer internal resources (we are all still hunter gatherers after all, biologically speaking). The kind that makes you a capable hunter, i.e. the ability to acquire food/goods:
- Self-confidence - Self-belief - Patience - Ability to acquire new skills - Charisma/EQ - Ability to succeed in society and on earth
Then, the qualities preached in religion:
- Peace - Love - Kindness - A teaching and empathetic heart towards others - Compassion, etc.
Once you've acquired these things, you will no longer be afraid of death. Because you will have accomplished what you were born to do.
TLDR: Study the qualities that martial arts masters have. Because they are the people most at peace with death, which likely means they have accomplished what they were born to do. Then, acquire those qualities. Finally, teach others those qualiites.
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#417I'm not rich, but I have enough to live out my days [humbly], and leave something to my daughter.
But I get to write code, Every. Single. Day. Code that I want to write, the way that I want to work, at the Quality level that I want to deliver.
That's heaven.
I would not be here, if I had been able to find work, after leaving my last company at 55. So, I guess being frozen out of the tech industry is maybe the best thing that has happened to me. It was the kind of thing I wouldn't have known was possible, until I was forced into it.
But I wouldn't turn down a few extra mil. It's just that I don't think the fox is worth the chase.
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#418Instead of engaging with others, you should’ve just stayed bold (or in your own words - foolish) and started the robotics company, pouring in whatever money you could. Sometimes other people are unintentionally demoralizing. Who cares if you’re burning through your own cash? In a few years, it might just turn into something big.
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#419I have the opposite problem: I’m dependent on my job’s salary but know exactly what I want to do instead. Unfortunately the job makes my life so drained I can’t pursue my true callings.
This is true pain. To think a rounding error could free grinders like us to solve Actual Problems like disrupting Chrome hegemony, building user-respecting OSes and relighting the now nearly dimmed torch dropped so many years ago by Mozilla. Hopefully one day we can..
Actual problems are things like extreme poverty, access to drinking water, deforestation and habitat destruction, climate change etc. Not internet browsers. Good grief.
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#420nobody realizes it but this is an ad for having kids. if he had kids they would have helped him not be such a little bitch and continue doing productive things. when you are an evolutionary dead end you have the curse of excess productivity rather than the joy of investing in the future.