I don't know how we can even consider that luck doesn't play the biggest role in life. We are influenced by a trillion of decisions made by people that directly pass through our lives everyday. To your competitors in business to the people that decide they are sober enough to drive at the same time you are driving.
Not to mention the physical world which plays no favourites.
I look at Bezos/Musk/etc and they are on top of wealth pyramid solely because someone has to. Next year it will be someone else.
All we can do is try to make clear rational decisions and then let the universe unfold as it will.
I always thought that there is a specific cadence or rhythm to the human mind and I would create some music (or sequence of tones) that would get people addicted and I would sell it on a per-listen basis and make trillions.
Maybe they should maintain the postal boxes, have enough sorting machines, maintain the necessary manpower/processes, and remain independent enough to deliver the fucking mail.
I developed https://www.activegoals.net with mental health in mind especially since I deal a lot with the autism community who usually have poor executive functioning.
I knew I would get this answer if at all. Just shows that humans feel we are at the centre of the universe, whatever that universe is. Sounds like the 1500's all over again. I don't understand how one can answer like this. We can't even explain the simplest of experiments; the double-slit experiment, but here we have some HN subscriber saying bullshit to something that he/she doesn't understand, and even pressed the down-vote to further show their disgust at the insinuation that the universe may not adhere to their ill-formed, or how do I say politely, childish view of what the universe could actually be.
But he/she said that 'clearly' I am wrong. Not thinking that maybe reality isn't quite what we think with the small amount of information that we have at the moment.
The only physical limitation is the Planck length and everything above this is fair game. Our universe could be a solitude brain and the multiverse could be the collective of brains but damn I've been shot-down by a HN subscriber that told me it's clearly bullshit.
The more we understand about the universe, the more it's structure resembles the brain. Galaxies, or more accurately, the black holes in the middle of galaxies resemble the neurons and these filaments and magnetic fields are the synapses.
Who cares. Firms now want so many tax concessions that cities probably lose more than they gain with these corporations.
So tired of this emphasis on the economy and job growth. The key is well-being, and a city that concentrates on well-being will get all the employment opportunities they want without a single concession. Of course, while employment opportunities last in the coming automation and robotic world.
I have an aspergers son and run a 120-member social group for autistic adults and I can say that the #1 issue for the autistic wrt social interaction skills is that they care too much about the audience. I wrote a blogpost about it: https://ericlifeadvise.blogspot.com/2020/02/caring-what-othe...
Back in the early-90s, I quit IBM Lab job the same way. I was single but had a mortgage, car payments, and just quit on a whim because I just could not work. Would stare at the screen and just couldn't do it.
I had the idea of creating a service to optimise poorly-running software because I did a bit of that at IBM. So I took 2 weeks vacation, cold-called and got 2-3 appts and quit. Didn't understand business or anything really. Only got one paid gig for $600.
Went into consulting for a few years while building software to sell. My girlfriend at the time got me into real estate and I developed a neat little package which netted me $90,000 first year (not bad back then) plus yearly upgrades. Then somehow got into telecommunications when the deregulation happened. Never really had a typical 'employee' job. Had countless failures, one medium success, and one big success.
Moral: Never wait until things are 'ready' before quitting. It's like deciding to have a kid; there is no good time. It's amazing what hard work and the threat of failure will do to one's motivation.
This is such a good answer because sometimes a system where people are used to solve the issue is the right way.
And I say 'system' because as long as the company knows that Sally does the updating each day, but if Sally is on holidays or sick or quits, then there is a protocol where the work is done and the checks/balances are done to ensure that that mortgage rate change is done.
There could be a rate-change once a week on average. Of course if there is a central bank change then probably every mortgage product will need to be changed that day.
Rates are the important data-item but some of the legacy DBs will need to be notified of changes like fees, as well.
Not to mention the physical world which plays no favourites.
I look at Bezos/Musk/etc and they are on top of wealth pyramid solely because someone has to. Next year it will be someone else.
All we can do is try to make clear rational decisions and then let the universe unfold as it will.