Have you ever set/pursued real life goals? Not joke ones or fakes you make up for a workshop exercise. I haven’t. I’ve only: a) picked among opportunities (50%) b) stirred the pot to create new opportunities (30%) c) allowed random play to snowball into bigger thing (20%)
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Are you trying to point to the distinction between present(ed) opportunities and those which are contingent upon one's capabilities at a future (uncertain) date?
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Roughly. It’s a loose distinction, not a fundamental one. An opportunity is access to a leveraged pathway to a valuable end. It’s easier but also more fixed.
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In high school, among the posters I had on my wall was a plot of an SRAM chip. I understood the very crude basics of VLSI. I programmed minis and micros. I said then "I'm going to design these computer chip things". ... And I did. [/massive Adrian Belew riff]
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That was 1980 -> 1990. [long random intermezzio] FF to Y2K: overweight, underconditioned: "I will race my bicycle, with the best of my cohort, and actually finish respectably". That was the first coherent goal formed in a while. [narrator: He'd check this one off, too.]
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Decided to start a company during college based on argument from my friend "we will never have better access to intellectual capital or more risk tolerance than now". Does that count?
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Well looks like you did, so yeah
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Learning math for real after school let me down
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Why not both? I take opportunities for predictable subsistence. I also have goals that require comfort with uncertainty and decades of abduction/deduction cycles to find the practical path. It takes passion and persistence.
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