I guess there’s two ways this post could have gone, and it went the way of “you know that sinking feeling that you’re not good enough, you’re right!”
I wrote a book last year for my family. Very few people outside my family will ever read it, but I wrote a book! I’m learning to be my best mediocre self and in so many ways I couldn’t be happier. In fact, thinking about my various personality traits, I think mediocrity is sort of my ideal state. I would probably be less happy/fulfilled if I was more successful.
I’m not sure what the world gets out of it, maybe it keeps you on Tik Tok watching hustle porn? But the ultimate modern counter-cultural fuck you to the system I think is to just be happy without worrying what the world cares about it. And then strive for incremental improvements rather than like dream about that one externally validated accomplishment that will make you happy.
It’s very confusing me to try and remember which numbers are measured in years vs decades. “Cost of 5 to 11 trillion dollars” without context is confusing.
Also lol good thing he found $100 billion in savings.
I seem to recall a lot of expectation that Trump would usher in the era of post-neoliberalism and we would be focusing more on improving the lives of everyday Americans and not fighting foreign wars.
But then it seems like there’s a lot of talk of violence and sort of neo-colonialism lately. What’s the dissonance, did I miss this in the zeitgeist or campaigning of the last few years?
It’s funny I know two people who did startups, I think I think most fail the way one did, failed to get traction, slowly dissipated and after closing up shop, ended with an offer to joy another company as principal engineer.
As opposed to the other who was largely self funded, had a start of like 8 people who relied on him, kept getting enticed with exits that fell through, that grinded away at his mental health over multiple years until he went full on right wing conspiracy theorist prepper and moved his family to an off grid homestead.
Trump’s funny in that he has a habit of advocating for fairly progressive things and then being corrected by the Republicans around him. I’m pretty sure he ran on universal healthcare in the first election for a short time.
Either way I’m not going to decry a good idea just because of the source but I’m skeptical.
This surprises me. It seems like there’s some level of acknowledgement that this may get in the way of the government being effective, but didn’t Musk sort of literally take a stand that anyone fired for an X post should sue their employer and X would pay for it?
I don’t understand your argument, isn’t the whole point of electing an outsider like Musk or Trump that they won’t ask why the fence is there, they’ll just remove it?
I love this question, but the unfortunate sort of boring answer is that the internet sort of granulized culture so much. This is in general like the shared culture debate of why don’t we talk about tv shows at the water cooler anymore.
I think the 20th century will have a unique significance throughout history because it was a time of such dramatic design / social / economic change, _and_ that that change was documented, by documentation technology that was also sort of signicantly changing by decade. There’s a chance that in 2450AD “eighties music” still refers to music from the 1980’s.
After watching his whole video, I don’t agree with his conclusion but do agree with some of the problems caused by referring to things by generation or based on shared trauma.
Just to play devil’s advocate because why the heck not lol, isn’t the theory here that people are tired of waiting for all the analysis of every chesterton’s fence and we should just act?
This guy says he works remotely from a van, who can gets me back to a previous question, are there any concrete case studies of companies that are actually using AI to replace swaths of employees?
I guess this depends on the kind of CEO, but I think a lot of the CEO’s job is to be a human being / celebrity with a perspective.
Is Elon Musk a better CEO because of the decisions he makes about his companies or because he gets other humans to follow him. Probably both, but you can’t exclude the latter.
And the second is the rethinking of impoundment, that Trump can decide what money to spend and not spend(which is in contrast I think to recent decisions like the end of Chevron deference that says the executive should not in fact be making their own decisions separate from what Congress decided.
I think there’s a lot you can say about how inefficient our government is, but a some point, if your saying our government is terrible and it should be completely rethought, taking power away from congress and enshrining it in the president. Even if it’s a good idea, isn’t that a coup? Like coup’s don’t always end badly, sometimes they replace bad things with better things. But if your like the whole government sucks and we need to replace it, and we’re going to do so outside of the normal process of passing laws and changing the constitution, that seems coup adjacent at least?
Something I’ve noticed in these headlines is a lack of clarity when saying “because of AI” between “retooling the workforce towards an AI strategy” and “AI is doing the work people used to do”.
Reading multiple press releases on the workday layoffs all suggest this is the former and not the latter.
I would more likely say that the qualities that make one popular or wanting to deal with the bullshit of managing Americans disputes are in opposition to the qualities that make one qualified. See: almost every politician that’s not a Democrat. Incompetence is staggeringly bipartisan.
A thing I wonder about like the nature of government and power is why does it feel like going back and forth between ridiculous policies. Like I’m sure 10 years from now, we’ll be uncovering crazy things the Trump administration did that were racist or sexist or whatever and it won’t make any sense! You’ll look at it and go why would a reasonable person have decided that approach! Talk about a footgun. And then maybe there’s a New Democrat administration that creates a new catchphrase that replaces DEI and we get familiar excesses again.
I wrote a book last year for my family. Very few people outside my family will ever read it, but I wrote a book! I’m learning to be my best mediocre self and in so many ways I couldn’t be happier. In fact, thinking about my various personality traits, I think mediocrity is sort of my ideal state. I would probably be less happy/fulfilled if I was more successful.
I’m not sure what the world gets out of it, maybe it keeps you on Tik Tok watching hustle porn? But the ultimate modern counter-cultural fuck you to the system I think is to just be happy without worrying what the world cares about it. And then strive for incremental improvements rather than like dream about that one externally validated accomplishment that will make you happy.