More than anything else, this just strikes me as tone-deaf. Doubly so given where we are with the economy and everything.
I am rich and have no idea what to do
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#602I'm not in the US or San Francisco, I totally don't get the purpose of this post. It's like dude's living in a bubble after all this time. Dude should travel to poorer countries (like where I'm from right now) and get some inspiration.
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#603Same 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…
There's something off about the post that I'm not sure I can pin point, but it's there. What are these oft referenced insecurities? It's hard to get a read on this without details, but dumping your girlfriend to do random selfish shit (climb mountain, go to Hawaii, etc.) - it's not a surprise he's unfulfilled (though working on doge would be exciting). This trap of 'working on yourself' that leads to endless mindfuln…
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#604Same 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…
> Same situation, I truly empathise because it really does seem to take a lot of purpose out of everything. Mainly though if all the purpose-giving focus was on just getting money and the related grinding to begin with. Getting mega-rich didn't take the purpose out of Steve Jobs, for example, which was focused on building stuff with some specific twist (his idea of good design). Or Steve Wozniak for that matter, he f…
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#605It’s very interesting to me that the author realizes he knows nothing about physics and robotics, but feels justified in talking about “saving the government” even though he also doesn’t understand economics.
This entire post is about having more money than you know what to do with. Very strange.
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#606Do none of these people have any creativity at all? No artistic spark that wants to be brought out but never could because art isn't really a profitable career?
Like it's the same thing that boggles my mind with Elon. All that success and he seems to destroy it by making himself miserable begging for approval on Twitter.
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#607I don’t think his problem is money. I think his problem is his identity (founder of Loom) suddenly disappeared. Now he needs to develop a new identity. This is especially difficult for single founders without kids (in the sense that people with spouse/kids already derive much of their identity from those 2 things). Selling a company isn’t all that different from going through a divorce (in the sense that your identit…
William Storr writes about this. His stance is humans are hard wired for status within their social group. The problem is when all your status eggs in one basket and it disappears, it’s not good for your mental health. He advocates for having your identity spread across many different pursuits and disparate social groups, although he admits he’s not very good at doing that himself.
> humans hard wired for status within their social group.
Not always "status". Humans benefit from cooperative behaviour but may have many reasons for joining and adhering or leaving.
Having varied interests means different networks. The important point is to see meaning and value. This is where ostracism and rejection can be most painful.
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#608This is the most childish thing I’ve read. And shows a lot about he doesn’t have any people relying on him or community to support. He takes one hike and throws away 60m. Doesn’t try to find anything interesting to do at Atlassian just calls his coworkers NPCs. This is zero-empathy Peter Pan syndrome at its worse. Sad how he just goes adventure hopping to try and find meaning. The problem is no matter where you are y…
> calls his coworkers NPCs.
Seriously, that's kind of a "fuck you" moment to all the people who helped him earn those millions isn't it?
Between this and hanging around with the head-cases at DOGE, I think the first thing he should spend his money on is a shrink.
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#609Same 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…
> you need to replace money/salary/financial success optimisation Kind of ironic, but that kind of sounds like the people who've been saying those things aren't the most important in life might have been right all along?
To access the others, you need to have good money/salary/financial success, oftentimes.
Heck even for good therapy, you need to have those.
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#610Absolutely childish.
I felt similar when I finished my PhD. It was the singular “thing” in my life to the exclusion of all others. Luckily I was 150k in debt so I didn’t have the luxury of acting like a buffoon for months.
Man if I was rich I’d donate half, invest half, and go back to stocking a small family owned grocery store like when I was in high school. I really enjoyed that job.