His habits. You can’t regularly work 80 hour weeks without packing a few tricks. You can’t build multiple billion dollar companies without knowing something others don’t. Often I find when talking to successful people, they’ll make a revealing offhand comment that’s pure gold and can in fact change your life - if you’re paying attention.
An example might be Einstein and Steve Jobs having a full wardrobe of duplicates of the same outfit. Ok, but why? Because they realize the mind is only capable of resolving a finite number of dilemmas per day and choosing what to wear depletes that resource. An eccentric habit, but revealing indeed. After being sold on the theory, they went all in. I wonder to what degree they executed on insights like that where the rest of us just brushed them off
He’s only the most successful entrepreneur alive. But sure visa holders need their beauty sleep. Seriously you can’t stay up to 1am to have the company of the worlds richest person? What an opportunity to learn. This thread is totally nuts
^totally.
I remember my startup incubator we all worked well into the night often as late as 6am. I remember falling asleep at my terminal often, and indeed slept at the office regularly, well until they told me to stop that. Look, people of a certain mindset need an Everest to conquer. If they don’t want to join in they can leave, everyone is there by choice.
Are you kidding me? Those guys are living the dream! Chilling out with Elon Musk on a Friday night. I’d go there to make the coffee and clean the dishes so I could overhear in the next room. No seriously
heres my theory;
Thiel and/or Trump have incentivized Elon to break twitter for 2024, as it’s an echo chamber for uniting the left and cancelling the right. When Trump wins 24, all of Elon’s companies get special treatment. Conspiracy? yes maybe and I have no proof, except that Elon just bought a company for 44 billion dollars and 2 weeks later is floating the idea of bankruptcy.
I also wonder if the FTX collapse needs a second review. There goes the left’s second largest donor.
well then lets all band together and get that murdering gangster kingpin back in our communities where he belongs. I mean he’s a psychopath, obviously.
On the fact I can hear perfectly, what are my ears magic?. No it’s not obvious at all. As we age we accumulate toxic chemicals, take injuries, and genetics become corrupted as the telomeres become exhausted. After the average age our ancestors reproduced is passed, anything and everything goes really.
Look at a violinist play, their neck is held at a 45 degree angle, compressing blood vessels going to… the left ear. If you do that 5 hours a day you might just get hearing loss.
See you’re oversimplifying a system with many layers of complexity. But if noise made you deaf and light made you blind, we would have many more deaf and blind people.
The orange pi line from Shenzhen is very nice indeed. Fully documented with sdcard images ready to go. Theres a clone of the pie zero 2 with a neat metal case and another softrouter design, that also has a metal case looks like a little mac mini. You can buy direct on the alibaba express store. 20-60USD depending on the memory config.
I’m not wrong, I’ve listened to 100db+ for a good 35 years, 5 hours a day, every single day. So how is it I have near perfect hearing? Doesn’t that break your theory? No? because it’s not based on fact.
no not really. I mean ok if you stare into the sun long enough you’ll go blind and if you pump 300db into your eardrums with an ambulance siren, yes it can do damage. But your eyes and ears don’t ‘wear out’. For the most part they’ll regenerate continually but for instances where the hairs have been destroyed from infection or where genetics break the regeneration process. The studies reenforce the hypothesis that noise and not age are responsible for hearing loss, in spite of the fact that it’s the older patients that have it worse. its a bias they have, finding the conclusion before the rigor of an objective test.
And this matters. Because if you have a limited window to enjoy your hearing, you shouldn’t be listening at 50db, you should turn it up and get the full immersive enjoyment while you are able.
Sorry but this theory is false, I’ll explain. Hearing loss is caused by genetics or a consequence of infection. It’s a part of aging no matter how loud the volume of your earphones. Just some people get it worse than others.
I’ve been listening at max (100db+) volume, 5 hours a day, every day, since the mid 80’s. I did recently lose some hearing to an infection in my left ear. I’m not playing down the severity of hearing loss, you don’t know the value of what you have until you lose it. When hearing loss does happen, there’s no cure. I took steroid injections through the eardrum, and orally, and a handful of other drugs but there is no effective treatment.
The loss of happiness from not having music is just incalculable. But I would in a moment give up all my money and possessions to get back music.
Anyway, what they’re blaming on loud music is a consequence of genetics or infection.
An example might be Einstein and Steve Jobs having a full wardrobe of duplicates of the same outfit. Ok, but why? Because they realize the mind is only capable of resolving a finite number of dilemmas per day and choosing what to wear depletes that resource. An eccentric habit, but revealing indeed. After being sold on the theory, they went all in. I wonder to what degree they executed on insights like that where the rest of us just brushed them off