tech people are really bad at having fun and playing. really feels like some of them frame life as one big optimization problem with an objective and constant loss function
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some are really explicit about this belief. e.g. "life hacking" is still alive and well. trying to game everything, oblivious to how much of an asshole it makes them. fetishizing of longevity and fad diets. just like being analytical about the cost/benefits of _everything_
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idk where i'm going with this, but it seems like it's making tech people in the bay really unhappy
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a ton of high-paid yuppies & techies accumulate an insane amount of knowledge on credit card reward points in order to save like $200/year in theory the right move is to stop optimizing and just enjoy yourself, but old habits die hard https://twitter.com/archielinux/status/1216827137568595968?s=21 …https://twitter.com/disconcerta/status/1216827137568595968 …
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you'd think all the big brains would have an understanding of opportunity cost of their time but instead there's like this extreme risk aversion and hyperfocus on penny pinching
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attitudes towards money reveal that, for this cohort, extreme risk aversion is actually a more powerful force than dispassionate ‘rational’ optimization
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