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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Aug 2017
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      16/ Merely making money is a close-ended problem to be solved, whether your horizon is the next month, the next year or retirement stash

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      17/ A baby or baby-equivalent though is an open-ended commitment where it only makes sense if you are willing to plan for success

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      18/ It is fine to view paychecks as just a close-ended way to pay bills. It's dumb *not* to wish a book to be open-ended success

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      19/ Similarly, close-ended "3x flip in 2 years" startup logic doesn't work for same reason "have baby and kill it at age 3" doesn't work

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      20/ So ambition is best understood as your personal process of budgeting for *open-ended* commitments through life, predicated on success

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      21/ Fewer people found startups at 40 than 25 (though more who do succeed) same reason fewer people have kids late (bio clock aside)...

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      22/ You rationally estimate that your available rest-of-life open-ended best-case attention budget for "one more kid" gets lower with age

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      23/ So to summarize: measure your ambitions in baby-equivalent units and take on what you think you can actually raise if successful

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      24/ Oh, and one more thing... the way you compute ambition is marginal, same as kids. "Can I afford 1 more kid?" is always the question.

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      25/ PS: choosing not to have kids/being anti-natalist is familiar.There is also choosing to have no memetic kids/being memetic-anti-natalist

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      26/ Okay I'm not done. Couple more points. First r/K selection applies to baby-equivs too. Deep invest in 1 or shallow invest in 10 babies?

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Aug 2017
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          27/ And finally, there's male (sperm) and female (egg+incubation) cheap/costly attitudes towards kid-equiv projects.

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          28/ Many of both genders bring "deadbeat dad" sensibilities to baby-equiv projects (monorail!). Doesn't work unless someone plays mom.

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