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felineflock 4 hours ago [-]
The four sentences:
- in our culture it’s healthy to switch jobs every two years, ideally to something the opposite of what you’ve been doing
- there’s an organization - the National Association of Campus Activities - that pays $1000 to $5000 per gig at universities
- to keep learning we need to be surprised. Read books about subjects you know nothing about. Move to a place very unlike home, so that you’ll be surprised every day.
- rich guy said that decades of pursuing more only made him miserable and he would rather have stopped at $30 million then switch to planting trees and writing poetry.
prettyblocks 2 hours ago [-]
You hear that everyone? Just stop after $30 mil and you will be happier.
milesvp 59 minutes ago [-]
I saw 10million quoted recently, and that sounds about right. 300k is a super safe withdrawal rate for that much money and you have a pretty comfortable life at that income level most places.
arjie 3 hours ago [-]
This is Derek Sivers of CD Baby, right? I think he is unusually high-agency in a way I could not imagine myself being. Definitely not one of those people who I look at and say "I could have done that. Why didn't I?"
For instance, I could simply never see myself voluntary relinquishing American citizenship: https://sive.rs/xus
Getting booted out, yes. But giving it up, no chance.
Given that his behaviour is so far from what I would do, I think there are too few shared fundamentals for me to mimic him. So I think I'm not going to do the things he did.
cuttysnark 10 hours ago [-]
There’s a huge gap and missing inspirational book sentence between “doing music and nothing else”, the proceeds of which bought a house, and selling a tech company for tens of millions.
The real cliffhanger was the part where he almost fell into successful serial entrepreneurial pursuits, but a book purchased as a joke warned him he’d better not.
pepperoni_pizza 10 hours ago [-]
This whole article is just one big humblebrag.
amelius 11 hours ago [-]
Hmm I don't see the sentences.
mr_mitm 11 hours ago [-]
Me neither, and it was the first thing I looked for. Instead I saw: "No ads. No hype. Just quiet wisdom". Okay then
Ahrgo 10 hours ago [-]
These are in every paragraph of his examples:
"While rock climbing, someone says the instructor used to be her physics teacher. The British man is surprised, so she explains that in their culture, it’s healthy to switch jobs every two years, ideally to something the opposite of what you’ve been doing."
GiorgioG 11 hours ago [-]
Seems a bit hyperbolic.
Ahrgo 11 hours ago [-]
Small things can have big impacts.
They motivate you to see an angle you just haven't thought about.
I had the issue that I stoped feeling confident going on holiday without proper insurance in a time when i was traveling with my DSLR (worht 3-5k) but i wasn't 'rich' enough ot just replace it if something would break or steal.
There is a sentence: "A ship is not build to stay in the harbor".
I accepted more risk due to this and stoped overthinking certain risks. I'm not here to just sit at home and watch television and if i go out and try something, its fine to risk things
Giorgi 10 hours ago [-]
Just dont be poor
ericmcer 2 hours ago [-]
More like timing.
White guy coming out of college in the late 80s/90s and wanting to get into tech was a rarely opportune hand.
As soon as I read "just redo your career every 2 years" I knew exactly what time period he was 22 during.
Either way a lot of people had similar backgrounds and didn't achieve anything like what he did.
- in our culture it’s healthy to switch jobs every two years, ideally to something the opposite of what you’ve been doing
- there’s an organization - the National Association of Campus Activities - that pays $1000 to $5000 per gig at universities
- to keep learning we need to be surprised. Read books about subjects you know nothing about. Move to a place very unlike home, so that you’ll be surprised every day.
- rich guy said that decades of pursuing more only made him miserable and he would rather have stopped at $30 million then switch to planting trees and writing poetry.
For instance, I could simply never see myself voluntary relinquishing American citizenship: https://sive.rs/xus
Getting booted out, yes. But giving it up, no chance.
Given that his behaviour is so far from what I would do, I think there are too few shared fundamentals for me to mimic him. So I think I'm not going to do the things he did.
The real cliffhanger was the part where he almost fell into successful serial entrepreneurial pursuits, but a book purchased as a joke warned him he’d better not.
"While rock climbing, someone says the instructor used to be her physics teacher. The British man is surprised, so she explains that in their culture, it’s healthy to switch jobs every two years, ideally to something the opposite of what you’ve been doing."
They motivate you to see an angle you just haven't thought about.
I had the issue that I stoped feeling confident going on holiday without proper insurance in a time when i was traveling with my DSLR (worht 3-5k) but i wasn't 'rich' enough ot just replace it if something would break or steal.
There is a sentence: "A ship is not build to stay in the harbor".
I accepted more risk due to this and stoped overthinking certain risks. I'm not here to just sit at home and watch television and if i go out and try something, its fine to risk things
White guy coming out of college in the late 80s/90s and wanting to get into tech was a rarely opportune hand.
As soon as I read "just redo your career every 2 years" I knew exactly what time period he was 22 during.
Either way a lot of people had similar backgrounds and didn't achieve anything like what he did.