are you "too depressed to get a job" or do you "not see any options for making money compatible with your values" 🤔🤔🤔
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riffing: i know lots of people getting into the idea of letting go of doing, striving, etc. and a thing i worry gets missed is that the point isn't that doing and striving are bad, it's that letting go gives you enough distance to see how shitty your plans are twitter.com/nosilverv/stat…
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half-baked: people play at all times the most fun game they know how to play. if you see someone doing something that looks ridiculously unfun to you assume it is because they literally don’t know how to play a more fun game than what they’re playing
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hmmmm what if you could run a business and be good to your employees what a wild concept
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still thinking about this
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literally nobody:
me: smart fucked up people are our nation's most undervalued resource
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"seeing myself as a conduit"
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For me the outcome focus is helpful because I don’t personally feel like I want, need or deserve a lot of money - there may be some issues there I need to work on - but I can bypass it entirely by seeing myself as a conduit for serving others who *clearly* deserve it in my eyes
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"un/under employed, depressed, and with some... interesting hobbies"
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"Underemployed nerds aren't a strategic resource, they are astronomic waste.
While prescient, they are structurally locked out of the information and decision loop of all US government agencies"
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Underemployed nerds aren't a strategic resource, they are astronomic waste.
While prescient, they are structurally locked out of the information and decision loop of all US government agencies .
MBAs, law degrees and PhDs have been selecting against their kind for decades. twitter.com/benlandautaylo…
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Is anyone talking about the overlap between the meaning crisis and the bullshit jobs phenomenon?
I watch videos of decent old dudes building boats or whatever and they seem fundamentally OK in a way that I don't see in most of my generation.
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I sometimes dream about running a business where
(1) fully distributed
(2) team leaders hold weekly open 'office hours'
(3) no mandated work hours except 'scheduled weekly sync ups'
some part of scrum feels like that: the daily checkin and that's it, but I cant say for sure
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Definitely sounds Scrum-adjacent. As long as you keep that Daily Stand-Up at the same time&same place, you can give the team the freedom to do the work as they see fit.
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before we got acquired and shit; we had a bad year where our company was short about half a mil. the two owners cut their own salary for the year to 70k so others could make the full amnt (which was anywhere 100-250k depending on person n hours worked, we had an hourly scheme) 😔
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this forever made me realize that privately owned firms can be good or bad; but once you IPO, it's fucking over.
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the bar is so so so so so so so low for running a successful business
like i don't think we've even begun to tap how to run a business right, at all, because the constraints are wrong
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on further thought,
i see periodization-like schemes in a few places
- sports (obviously)
- school (study CRAM *EXAM* break, study CRAM *EXAM* summer break)
- military (lots of submax work in the lead-up to an op, less afterwards)
any other examples? 
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