Fine-tuning your brain
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guy who is terrified of being left behind by history
So we had WFH but we also had WFN (work for no one)
nber.org/papers/w35856
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Initially published on 13 June 2000.
orionsarm.com/eg-article/464…
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Neighborhood Parrot retweeted
SF is what happens when everyone who did all the work on group projects in college finally finds each other
I figured out the trick to Twitter. You post the most generic thing you can and eventually you’ll get lucky. Lesson for life
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Some people I think very well of are into the Berkeley, San Francisco, Palo Alto parts of the world, and, qua philosophy, many of those places represent ideas and ways of life that strike me as serious and revolutionary.
But man, qua human, when some of the sociocultural stuff about those communities reaches my boring old engineer’s timeline, and one sees the local Bay Areans’ discussions around that sociocultural stuff, the WTF is so powerful it makes me think there is something very off about the way of life when instantiated into a real society of people who have to live their lives.
Not sure if it is gender skew, age, anti-conservatism about norms, the strange culty insider way of speaking and writing, too much consequentialism and longtermism, money, tech bro culture and power, overvaluation of “rationality” over emotion, or… ? But wow.
I know, painting with a broad brush and all that.
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Twitter is the ultimate anti lemming because you see all the ways to ruin your life and then don’t do it
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