"We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery-it recharges by running."
It had a great impact on me and I never had a TV in the living room. I made my kid read this as well.
This speech is aging well and is timeless in my opinion.
I can sort of understand why Aaronson would do that, any time you mention a pronoun, a moment later the entire discussion is dominated by nothing but pronoun stuff. It is literally happening right now in this comment thread that I am participating it. :-)
It's not that simple. Loyalty, if defined as 'being with the company a long time', can result in complacency and degrading productivity in line with the amount of critical knowledge this loyal person is storing in their head.
Also, loyalty is one of those double-edged swords that is just great... until it isn't. And when it suddenly isn't, it's a divorce-level event. I saw my employer walk a 20-year employee out of the company with essentially no notice. Seeing that, as a fellow employee, murdered any sense of what I thought loyalty meant to this company.
One bad example can destroy the entire mystique around 'loyalty'.
Get paid for the job you do. If you're aiming to move up the ladder, do a better job than what you're paid to do and let them know your interests and intentions, even to the point that you give them a timeline. But don't expect any more than they promise, and be prepared to burn them if and when they break their promise.
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Intermittent fasting(16/8) was the start of what seem to be blood sugar related issues for me. Ever since I tried it, I get insanely tired after a meal. I had bouts of hypoglycemia as a kid, but that resolved until after trying IF. Now my blood sugar regulation seems wonky. My fatigue is worse since then as well. I've checked my glucose levels when the fatigue hits and they're fine(<120mg/dL). IF didn't have an effect on my weight either.
Same, on almost all counts. Two things helped: add a 1-2 hr (moderately intense, definitely sweating) bike ride at end of fast time, shower, cook, eat SLOWLY. Like slowly enough you could carry on a phone conversation without being rude. Heck, try a phone call quite literally, it’s not like we’re going to HHs nowadays!
Limit your fasting coffee intake as well or part of it could be caffeine/sleep crash.
" by making things that genuinely delight its customers." - sure all these mindless, addictive apps, sites like Facebook, Instagram, binge watching on Netflix, time sink like YouTube are all genuinely delighting me, I walk away feeling great about myself.
Glossing over important aspects to either feel good about themselves or to project as do-gooders is not going unnoticed.
I do not want to minimize your experience either, as somebody suffering from chronic pain for the past two years myself.
Chronic pain sensitizes you further, having this awareness helps you deal with your condition better. I highly recommend reading the following article.
Not a zero-sum game, the pie is growing etc are some of the reasons we tell ourselves so that we (the middle class knowledger workers) can sleep at night. I bought 'Winners take all' last year, but finally started reading it recently and finished more than 50%. I would like the commenters to read an author's work before criticizing it, otherwise you are the one who is making assumptions.
Whatever. There's a big difference between feeling inadequate while sitting in your third vacation home and working 40-60 hours a week at a job you hate because if you were doing what you actually wanted to do instead you'd be starving in a ditch somewhere by now.
Probably the best predictor of if you're going to be upset about people having more than you if you've got $10M is if you're upset about people having more than you when you have $100k.
There will always be people who have cooler stuff than you. If you get upset about it when the cool stuff isn't like stable housing, food security, and decent transportation, the problem isn't lack of funds, it's your attitude.
He has all the f u money he needs, no day job, genuine curiosity, there is no need to doubt it. His intellectual curiosity is so refreshing when almost everybody reads books to signal something.
Other people read books to signal, but Talib has enough cloud to just say shit instead of signaling. Arguably, this is why he has the reputation of being a jerk or putting his foot in his mouth.
"We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery-it recharges by running."
It had a great impact on me and I never had a TV in the living room. I made my kid read this as well. This speech is aging well and is timeless in my opinion.