And right after that, I went back to my physics of time book and had the opposite reaction. Just a peek inside the heads of immensely interesting people whose material lives brevolve around mostly just pen and paper and chalkboards.
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I am wary of fetishizing the life of the mind but damn, the difference is so stark. I’d give up a unit of material plenty for a unit of inner life interestingness nearly all the way to the end of the trade off curve.
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I mean damn, these sheikhs are the richest people who ever lived in many ways and they can’t think of much better things to do with their money than Lamborghinis and falcons and camel races? I have to feel a bit sorry for them.
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I looked at specific named people videos. Crown prince this or that etc.
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reminds me of the anecdote that Einstein used a Princeton paycheck as a bookmark
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$800k mansions with a private chef
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Are you sure which is the cause and which the effect?
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