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"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water" You do what you were enjoying before, just now you don't need to get paid in money for it. May be you will get paid in fame, noble prize, smiles of people whose life you impact etc. The money you have can't buy those directly but only when you put effort.
Peak, peak HN. "I am rich and yet find it to be unfulfilling and not the ultimate goal of human existence" and yet, "I am a big fan of capitalism" and repeat wholesale its most puerile, naive ideological propaganda mantras (see his about page) which are meant to justify _exactly_ that. Bud, seems like you have some more thinking to do if you think those two positions are perfectly congruent.
This has to be parody.
”Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning—- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Give your money away and force yourself to have to do some real work again.
Was there an occult(ation)-like timeshift that I missed hearing about, which somehow made today April 1st? Or is this a test ChatGPT or other LLM post to see if H GI exists, considering the comments that seem to be taking the OP seriously? H for Human. As in Human General Intelligence, as opposed to AGI. Or is the OP just an Elon-level narcissist and/or a huge startup koolaid alcoholic? Genuinely can't tell. Emperor…
Whether it’s weightlifting, yoga, meditation, or chopping wood, I hope you can find your path to contentment OP!
"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water" You do what you were enjoying before, just now you don't need to get paid in money for it. May be you will get paid in fame, noble prize, smiles of people whose life you impact etc. The money you have can't buy those directly but only when you put effort.
I am really, really eager and excited to see the result when these DOGE-istas cook up whatever insanely “rational” schemes they imagine will make government not completely “dysfunctional” roll them out to the people they actually need to implement them (i.e., Congress). Surprise! Politicians only claim to care about budget and spending matters when the opposite party is in control. But I think most of us aren’t so na…
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When I got back home and regaled my friends with my mountain stories, one of my friends joked that I should work for Elon and Vivek at DOGE and help America get off its current crash to defaulting on its own debt. So I reached out to some people and got in. After 8 calls with people who all talked fast and sounded very autistic smart, I was added to a number of Signal groups and immediately put to work.
Working for DOGE for 4 weeks, remembering the power of urgency
Within 2 minutes of talking to the final interviewer for DOGE, he asked me if I wanted to join. I said “yes”. Then he said “cool” and I was in multiple Signal groups. I was immediately acquainted with the software, HR, and legal teams and went from 0 to 100 taking meetings and getting shit done. This was the day before Thanksgiving.
The next 4 weeks of my life consisted of 100s of calls recruiting the smartest people I’ve ever talked to, working on various projects I’m definitely not able to talk about, and learning how completely dysfunctional the government was. It was a blast.
I learned about the power of urgency and having an undeniable mission. Not by reading it somewhere. By experiencing it. I came to realize how laughable my robotics stint had been in comparison. And I started to realize that, although the mission of DOGE is extremely important, it wasn’t the most important thing I needed to focus on with urgency for myself. I needed to get back to ambiguity, focus on my insecurities, and be ok with that for a while. DOGE wasn’t going to fix that.
You know what I got from this story? DOGE already processed a lot of applications and set up the signal chats etc. This guy applied and right away heard back, because he has millions of dollars, good reputation for having a large exit, and he "reached out to some people and got in". I simply applied in the way they asked -- DMming them on Twitter -- the very next day, submitting a link to my resume, background and co…
I console myself by thinking about how many hundreds of thousands of resume links they must have received.
I struggle with hiring when I have a few tens of resumes to sort through.
I can't imagine how they'll filter the signal from the noise and trolls with X DMs being the submission process.