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Sergey Brin's Unretirement

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Re: Sergey Brin's Unretirement

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Post by cap11235 »

mrguyorama wrote: post #404
burner420042 wrote: post #113

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You're describing my father. Now that he's retired his lack of hobbies is really catching up to him. His only hobby has been working and I've noted this about him since I was an adolescent and decided then as something I would not emulate. A few times I've quit a FAANG job with no plan for after other than to wander, and both times the lack of professional competition meant not just coasting horizontally but that I w…

>While intentionally unemployed I'd answer truthfully and with a smile, 'I'm unemployed!' which visibly confused people. The proper term is "Funemployed"

"gainfully unemployed" is a fun one to use.

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Post by dirkc »

dopidopHN2 wrote: post #298
dirkc wrote: post #230

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I sometimes joke and say that I type for a living, not entirely untrue. But I've found that sometimes people are offended if I answer their question evasively

I work in a buttons factory

sometime I say "push buttons for a living" instead of typing :)

Can also describe my job as 'endlessly deliberate over the placement of pixels'

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Post by leoedin »

jacquesm wrote: post #178
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Yeah, my main worry about retirement is that I’ll spend all my money on tools and projects.

That's going to be the main problem for me heirs: where do all the tools go :)

My dad has developed an unhealthy addiction to buying used agricultural equipment and machine tools. He's been busy importing them to his rural farm. I have no idea how we'll clear that up once he's gone!

He's not a farmer. Just a farm tool collector.

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Post by Klonoar »

dmitrygr wrote: post #101
marcus_holmes wrote: post #94

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I took a career break and was weirded out by the question of "how do I introduce myself?". So used to saying "Hi, I'm Marcus, I'm IT Director of " that suddenly having nothing to say there was strange. When people asked "what do you do?" I had no good answer, and that felt like I had no good identity. I guess for Sergey Brin it's a little different, he will always be "Founder of Google" even if he leaves Google. But…

> When people asked "what do you do?" I found that outside of CA, this is asked a lot less often. In CA people ask that so they can mentally rank you as worth their time or not. Elsewhere, people ask you how your weekend went, or how your family is. One of the awesome parts of moving to Austin was not hearing that as the first question as much.

It’s so commonly asked in DC that it’s been a meme in dating circles there for decades.

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Post by Klonoar »

__jonas wrote: post #464
fragmede wrote: post #433

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Depends on the shareholder. At Sergey Brin's level, that shareholder value shapes the future of humanity, a legacy affecting many more people and will last far longer than spending time with single, or even double digit number of children.

I can't really tell what you're trying to say, do you really think the shareholder value of Google is positively aligned with the future of humanity? As in: If Google builds a really good AI and makes a lot of money from that, this will be a net positive for the world?

You’re shifting the goalpost to be positive influence or not. That’s not what they were saying though.

Their point is that the sheer allure for many people of that level of influence is powerful and makes other options likely less appealing.

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Post by fuzztester »

lionkor wrote: post #157
fuzztester wrote: post #128

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for me, it would be bread and cheese making (easier cheese varieties), vegetable fermentation, more cooking of various cuisines including indian ones, drawing and painting, carpentry, permaculture (i did organic gardening earlier, which is a subset), wood carving (done some before), and maybe tailoring (making clothes, by hand or by sewing machine, for own use). only a few at a time, of course, maybe only two, and by…

Arguably Sergey should have just gotten into Sourdough.

And Larry should have been a pageboy.

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Post by jart »

fragmede wrote: post #434
jart wrote: post #224

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I left Google to build an open source project a long time ago. A big part of the appeal was being able to have something to work on that's truly mine. Sergey already has something that's his and it's called Google. So I think he belongs there.

The world thanks you for your work. Which one of yours is your favorite?

Cosmopolitan has been my baby for a while. It may not be my most popular project, but it's the secret sauce that powers everything else.

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Post by jart »

pardon_me wrote: post #490
jart wrote: post #232

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It's the worst thing ever. The amount of disrespect that robot shows you, when you talk the least bit weird or deviant, it just shows you a terrifying glimpse of a future that must be snuffed out immediately. I honestly think we wouldn't have half the people who so virulently hate AI if OpenAI hadn't designed ChatGPT to be this way. This isn't how people have normally reacted to next-generation level technologies bei…

It's called OPEN AI and started as a charity for humanitarian reasons. How could it possibly be bad?!

That's apparently how you pull the wool over the eyes of the world's smartest people. To be fair something like it needed to happen, because the fear everyone had ten years ago of creating a product like ChatGPT wasn't entirely rational. However the way OpenAI unblocked building it unfairly undermined the legitimacy of the open source movement by misappropriating their good name.

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Post by faust201 »

jonathanstrange wrote: post #193

This might rub some people on HN the wrong way but what these people call "work" isn't really work in the sense of what most people consider work. They jet here and there, intervene wherever they want, and everybody listens to them all the time. They can cancel and postpone meetings as they wish, and so on and so forth. It's work in the same sense as buying another house is work -- you have to get together with lawye…

It is the news media report calling it work. For some people it is just a passion. My boss at a Uni works literally 20 hours per day (he is rich and has a lifetime job). But science is his passion. He would not call it work. Maybe Brin has ideas. he has so much money that he does not need to work but he gives his brain some work.
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