No sarcasm, very entertaining but your spelling is a bit rubbish, nevermind, that part is insignificant.
Enjoying your musingsCarry on
OK then. I'll probably start other thread(s) in order to explore different ideas.
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Another possible removal of golden handcuffs
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OK then. I'll probably start other thread(s) in order to explore different ideas.
You portray a lot of anger, frustration, blame, and hatred. Are you sure you have the psychological makeup of someone who has to be driven and self motivated in running an independent business where you yourself take all the risk? Just wondering...
Today was a regular day: woke up at 6 AM to go to work, got back home at 6 PM. If I'm to start working on my personal project, I do so with a performance / productivity penalty of -12 hours. If someone thinks an hour is an hour, no matter when, they're at best an idiot, at worse assholes who know they ain't but pretend they don't. There's a large body of statistical research which says MANUAL LABOR jobs efficiency peaks at 8 hours, after which efficiency decreases logarithmically, so an extra 4 hours of labor only brings 2 hours worth of regular productivity and so on. And for INTELLECTUAL work the number of hours worked is even lower, apparently around 6. So after 12 hours I'm into almost zero productivity territory, even that for "credit" (I'm incurring "sleep debt").
Yesterday I just caved in and slept for 12 hours more or less. Went to bed at 6 PM, struggled to get asleep, answered a phone at 8 PM, finally woke up thinking it's morning, it was exactly midnight. Experienced that a lot of times, at 6 PM I knew I was in a "total wreck" state and had to sleep not to get rested but just to recover enough to the state where I only feel tired like a normal person and can go to sleep. Which I did for the next 6 hours, incurring another -2 hours of sleep debt for a manual laborer, -4 for an intellectual.
Anyways today after another 12 hours I've caffeinated myself enough to get past the exhaustion that sets in and inebriated myself just enough so I also get past depression and feeling of hopelessness, I mean like what's the point? Adding near-zeros (in productivity) for a very large period of time still integrates to near-nothing.
What outlier are you then? If you are not one of your self described "mass imbecile" then how come you still work jobs that "are nowhere near scratching it"? Are you perhaps hopelessly overestimating yourself?
I'm an outlier. Don't judge me by the wisdom of the masses, which is what you're doing here.
1) Mass wisdom is perfectly fine with working SOME job and also implying it's your AWESOME life purpose. Masses are imbeciles and truly, directionless and purposeless. Give'm something and they'll follow.
Not me. I want something and whatever jobs I got so far are nowhere near scratching it. As long as what I want is not illegal, it's my prerogative to pursue it using the full spectrum of resources available.
2) Another mass wisdom perl of ass wisdom, derived from #1 is that it's not just OK, it's the only WAY, if you want to pursue some path, any path, the way to do it is beg some patron to bless you with a job on it. And if you can't find a patron and you're not already accidentally (#1) working on it then it's clearly your fault and you shouldn't get near it anyways.
Well, I want. Heck not want, need a lot of money for my purposes so as much as beggind and tailwagging trying to impress some rescuer to get me out of the basket of puppies heading out for extinction, that strategy just doesn't work reliably enough to be usable on SINGLE individuals. I need in the 80%-90% confidence before committing to something, the beggar strategy is in the 1-2%. Works fine for POPULATIONS and suits fine assholes selecting from populations. The bolsheviks correctly identified the latter but failed to identify the former. Some incipient political moves of this century correctly identified the former but there's a lot more to a winning strategy than what the previous centuries were doing.
#3) Perhaps we could start a rational discussion on what drives us here, where we want to go and what means are we considering for that?
First axiom of the 21'st century: risk is good. Experimenting is risky and with 99.99% probability it'll fail. Works fine for populations but not for leaders, check Khrushchev for instance. Guy reformed the murderous Soviet system and experimented with eccentric agricultural reforms. First one worked marvellously (00.01% probability of survival), second one was a 99.99% guaranteed failure.
Morale for this century should be what the Russians always knew.
What outlier are you then? If you are not one of your self described "mass imbecile" then how come you still work jobs that "are nowhere near scratching it"? Are you perhaps hopelessly overestimating yourself?
I agree. In terms of "overestimating yourself", it sounds very much like a trader who claims to be consistently making good money that also just happens to be selling their programming services on ET for $500 a pop. Makes no sense.
What outlier are you then? If you are not one of your self described "mass imbecile" then how come you still work jobs that "are nowhere near scratching it"? Are you perhaps hopelessly overestimating yourself?
What eminence are you and who appointed you in charge of judging me?
Just simple observations. All you did was just wining and complaining and wishful thinking. Good luck to you, you will need it.
What eminence are you and who appointed you in charge of judging me?