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I am rich and have no idea what to do

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Re: I am rich and have no idea what to do

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Post by downrightmike »

thepuppet33r wrote: post #794

Putting aside the whole "I'm rich and aimless, what should I do" thing the author's got going on, I found the product they got rich for (Loom) to be fascinating as a statement on where we are right now. It's essentially just a program that allows you to record a video of yourself while iterating through a presentation or screen share and then share it for feedback. Powerpoint has this as a native feature with OneDriv…

Its a screen recorder system. Rather than looking at a dedicated program that costs money, Loom comes up in Google first and works.

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Post by jmuguy »

thepuppet33r wrote: post #794

Putting aside the whole "I'm rich and aimless, what should I do" thing the author's got going on, I found the product they got rich for (Loom) to be fascinating as a statement on where we are right now. It's essentially just a program that allows you to record a video of yourself while iterating through a presentation or screen share and then share it for feedback. Powerpoint has this as a native feature with OneDriv…

Our company is currently six people. We have a software-updates channel in Slack where I post our changelog for the team to read. I am very meticulous about these posts because I know very frequently we'll get asked "when did such and such change" and I can go back and reference these posts. And also its frequently the only way sales and our executive will know about changes, having not been directly involved. So yeah - I take a lot of time to make these posts concise, easy to understand etc.

I constantly get asked to make a Loom demonstrating the changes. Which makes sense... but is also frustrating. And I always make the point that these videos aren't searchable (sure they have AI summaries or whatever but those are in Loom, not Slack).

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Post by neom »

8/10 people I'm friends with who have been through an exit could write this post. It's a very, very, very, very common. The questions at the end too, two hands to count the times I've been asked those questions. I think the answer is, because: because those are what got you to the point of where you are right now, they are in fact just you, there is no why, they are not questions they're statements, that's who you are. Why are you that way? does it matter? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (oh, and letting people down is hard because you're not just letting people down, you are letting yourself down too)

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Post by eightysixfour »

cocothem wrote: post #556
eightysixfour wrote: post #50

I honestly cannot imagine living with these thought patterns, it truly sounds like hell to me. You don’t need to do hard things or overcome adversity every day to have purpose and find life fulfilling, it is an Infinite Game (read the book), not a Finite one. If you are reading the comments, IMO these giant grand gestures to find some spark of insight (climbing mountains, moving to Hawaii, etc.) aren’t going to accom…

same experience will give different teachings to different people. for you going to a homeless shelter may help you appreciate life more, see that you can make a change in others by helping them etc. for someone wired differently - it may be a yucky experience with smelly people. so ymmv

It is a yucky experience with smelly people. It isn’t supposed to make you feel all warm and fuzzy.

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pech0rin wrote: post #490

This 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…

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Post by abustamam »

thepuppet33r wrote: post #794

Putting aside the whole "I'm rich and aimless, what should I do" thing the author's got going on, I found the product they got rich for (Loom) to be fascinating as a statement on where we are right now. It's essentially just a program that allows you to record a video of yourself while iterating through a presentation or screen share and then share it for feedback. Powerpoint has this as a native feature with OneDriv…

I used to work for a company that used Loom. It was always used for internal demos, ie "I made a new feature" or "I encountered a bug." It was perfect for that. That being said, we probably weren't the target market because we didn't pay for it.

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thepuppet33r wrote: post #794

Putting aside the whole "I'm rich and aimless, what should I do" thing the author's got going on, I found the product they got rich for (Loom) to be fascinating as a statement on where we are right now. It's essentially just a program that allows you to record a video of yourself while iterating through a presentation or screen share and then share it for feedback. Powerpoint has this as a native feature with OneDriv…

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Post by karolist »

neilv wrote: post #306

Regarding the part of breaking up with girlfriend shortly after a winning startup exit, I'm reminded of a friend. (Different situation, but something to think about.) She saw her bf through the difficult process of a developing a creative work, and eventually he completed it, won a prestigious reward... and he broke up with her. He got invited to the White House because of the award, and I think missing out on that r…

You don't know enough to know the full picture, easy to draw conclusions sure, but they are most likely incorrect.

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Post by postsantum »

Palomides wrote: post #205
akamaka wrote: post #145

> I should work for Elon and Vivek at DOGE and help America get off its current crash to defaulting on its own debt I’ve got an idea: take some good economics courses so that you learn how government spending actually works.

don't worry, he's starting with physics and will invent economics from first principles on his own because he's a genius

No, he is about to invest in longevity research, like all other cool non-NPC billionaires do

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Post by torginus »

akamaka wrote: post #145

> I should work for Elon and Vivek at DOGE and help America get off its current crash to defaulting on its own debt I’ve got an idea: take some good economics courses so that you learn how government spending actually works.

I don't fucking understand these people. They built a startup of questionable value which can be replicated with open source software, which is debatable if it even solves real world problem, somehow got a huge payday from freely printed VC money, and now they made it their life's calling to fire a bunch of people who don't make that money even it they worked for 10k years, but their livelihoods depend on getting paid.

Not just him, but the other 'smart people' who he mentions in the post who also work at DOGE (for like the 4 weeks he can dedicate his brilliance to solving the worlds burning issues, sorry world, if it takes longer than that).

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