what's it called when you watch yourself wasting away your precious time but feel unable to stop
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imagine having a 15 year career of reviewing tech products and then launching a paid wallpaper app. i can't get over it. i'm legitimately stunned. bro oneshotted his entire career
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people always say “no screens 1 hour before bed” but what do u do for that hour if u have no screens
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living two blocks from a grocery store is such an insane quality of life boost
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the stupidest part about therapy is you’re supposed to delve into the deepest complexities of your psyche, but only for exactly 45 minutes, and then you have to neatly zip it back up until next week’s session
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pornhub was just acquired by private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners. you can't make this shit up
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i want to go to a doctor that will run every single test possible and give me a personalized plan for optimal health
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what’s the word for when someone asks if you want to do something, and your answer is “i would not push this activity forward on my own, but if you were excited about it, i would easily get excited too and enjoy doing it with you”
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midwestern (ohio vs. indiana)
ivy educated (yale vs. harvard)
military background (marine vs. navy)
short (5' 7" vs. 5' 8")
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i’ve finally become skeptical of people who are immediately super vulnerable upon meeting, without actually knowing me. i used to think it was a superpower, and now i think it ranges from naive to oblivious to manipulative. small talk has a purpose
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i need someone to make a website called “is this movie woke?” that i can check before wasting two hours of my life
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you just know some mckinsey analyst put this on their resume like “Co-led $4m+ engagement for largest American city government with $98B annual budget that leveraged proprietary multimodal research and demonstrated a 13% increase in livability for over 8 million residents”
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accepting a job offer is insane behavior. you're committing to drastically change your life based on knowing maybe 10% of what you're actually agreeing to
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i love these. i love knowing the little ways in which my behavior is actually part of the collective
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i just spent a week in france gorging myself on carbs, fat, and sugar and i lost 2 pounds. i thought this was just a meme but american food really is poison
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for everyone saying "it's just a cash grab" -- well then why does he get to hold the products he critiques to higher standards than his own?
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i cannot for the life of me figure out if i should be paying someone to manage my money or just putting it in an s&p500 index
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turning the word “intimacy” into a euphemism for “sex” has been a disaster for the human race and its understanding of both intimacy and sex
bumble added “intimacy without commitment” to the list of what people are looking for. im so jealous of everyone who found love before the internet because this is pure hell
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he launched a tech product! his career is built off of purporting to have an expert eye when it comes to critiquing tech products on behalf of the consumer! it's absolutely related.
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i want so bad to be part of an old person crew that spends its mornings gabbing away outside a cafe
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guy behind me at airport complaining to a supervisor: “why are people allowed to bring dogs on airplanes now? every dog is an emotional support dog. that’s the purpose of a dog. also no one dresses up for their flight anymore. it’s a disgrace. no one has any shame.”
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i could not more emphatically discourage you from believing that you must fix all your issues before getting into a relationship. a good partner will hold answers you can’t reach on your own
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unpopular opinion but: early investment (sacrifice) into prestigious career paths pay dividends for the rest of your career. those jobs out of college can have a huge impact on your trajectory, and ultimately make it more likely you can do something you love *and* get highly paid
Advice I would give to a college freshman:
These next four years, one of your main goals should be to figure out how not to have the rest of your life be a long series of soul-sapping jobs
If you want to be happy after college, learn how to do one or multiple of these:
• Run your own business doing something you love (eg massage, coaching, art direction, filmmaking etc)
• Become economically independent somehow (eg through 4hr Work Week-style automated businesses)
• Get really good at cold-reading potential bosses, colleagues, and team culture so you only choose to work in life-giving teams
• Go into business with friends
• Only work at places doing stuff you regard as meaningful. If you go for a period not being able to find one of these, *do not compromise.* Just be poor and/or go on govt aid with free govt health insurance
But most of all, just start building a big network of people who are pursuing the routes above and are happy with their work. Begin the habit of relying on them to find jobs/gigs by writing up blurbs saying [what you are looking for] and passing it around on social media, telling them in person, etc.
You can start testing all these paths NOW, in college, through internships, or shadowing, or otherwise. Test them, especially during summer break! See what works for you!
A lot of your collegiate peers are heading for a hell-realm of flourescently lit offices where it's hard to connect with the meaning of work, most coworkers are numbed out, and free hours after work are spent too exhausted to do anything of consequence. Do not follow them into this hell-realm. Do not go gentle into that good night!!!
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a guy at the gym stopped me from wiping down a machine after i used it, and then he just,,,sat in my sweat
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last night, as i was falling asleep, for the very first time i started to worry that life is too short. i am only in my early 30s, yet i felt overcome with a sense that time moves too quickly and it can so very easily slip through your fingers. is this a middle life crisis
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he may retain his mass market audience but he lost the respect of anyone who actually makes tech products for a living
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starting to wonder how many people are more mentally ill because of twitter
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it’s insane that for a simple question of “i’m more tired, more often, than i should be” — i have to figure out on my own if i’m supposed to go to an endocrinologist, or obgyn, or psychiatrist, or allergist, or dietician, etc, and then ping pong between them until i get an answer
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someone who escalates vulnerability too quickly, in a way that isn’t built on mutual reciprocation, might believe they have good intentions, or they might feel compelled based on their history or psychology. that doesn’t change the fact it’s often harmful for one or both parties
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almost forgot:
former corpo (VC vs. mckinsey)
gay mafia allegiance (thiel backed vs. actually gay)
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quora's board of directors has the opportunity to do the funniest thing of all time
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the guy on the right seems less free to me. he seems much more concerned with putting on a performance
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the context of the cash grab makes a huge difference. launching shoes says nothing about his ability to critique tech products. but launching an app that is so insanely out of touch with the market calls into question his judgment in the domain his expertise is supposed to be in
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i really think taylor swift’s success can be boiled down to the fact she is sexless and therefore not threatening to women
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i told my doctor i wanted to lose 10lbs, and she told me to consider that my current weight might be the weight my body is most comfortable being. fascinating
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the rapid speed of new tech development makes me feel like i need to get rich quickly now or be left behind economically forever
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sam altman is very lucky the board coup happened 6 months ago, because the rabid public support that helped carry him back to office would not exist today
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please say a prayer for me if you can. i have had many difficult things thrown my way the last few months and the hits keep coming. i’m unable to catch my breath. i will get through it but i could use god’s support and i’m struggling to find it on my own. thank you
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how do you balance trusting yourself with knowing that you (as a human) have biases and cognitive distortions built into your psychology that can make your perception of reality untrustworthy?
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i can’t believe no one ever told me 75% of lifting is sitting around on your phone
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i’m somewhat embarrassed to admit it, but i genuinely find chatgpt to be helpful and supportive when i’m anxious
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sam has more leverage right now over the board as the ousted CEO than he did as CEO 48 hours ago
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the fact that i can ask a question about my finances on here and people who manage billions will weigh in with their advice is so incredible. i love this website
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prada now authenticates ownership of their luxury items on the blockchain, rather than issuing a physical certificate
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the stupidest part about therapy is that therapists won't actually directly help you solve your problems. they'll just patiently watch you be an idiot for months until you figure it out yourself
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the person who cooks in a relationship has such an important job. you are in charge of one of the biggest factors in the physical, mental, and spiritual health of your family
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i have finally realized that trying to replace something significant you’ve lost is a fools errand. you must let yourself grieve the loss and find separate, unique joy in something new
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i bet $1000 he has a cleverly crafted comp structure in place that rewards him the same as equity would on any major event. this is purely PR semantics
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uh an optimal plan would also include the identification and management of any diseases or abnormalities lmao
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Sorry, not sorry, not going to care about Twitter layoffs because I grew up with an alcoholic, psychologically abusive father in constant state of anxiety about the future.
Hearing the key in the door every evening was my own "twitter layoffs" for almost 20 years.
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every week i hear a new story about a recent college grad who is flat out refusing to do the job they were hired for
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i can't believe i suffered through real analysis in college only to end up with an email job
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one gender gulf i think about a lot is how men cannot know the depths that women’s need for a little treat can reach. no crying and no victims here just sharing a perspective
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greg has full knowledge of whatever information the board has that led to sam’s removal. this makes me think the evidence isn’t as damning against sam as the board statement implies, given greg’s statement and decision to quit here still publicly link his reputation with sam’s
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like HELLO i am over here trying to access otherworldly spiritual realms that transcend time and space and you’ve got me bound to a stopwatch …?
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i also didn’t get a single stomach ache. i typically can’t tolerate gluten or dairy in america
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i left my apartment at 12:37 to get ingredients and i was eating a homemade breakfast burrito by 12:53
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i’m sorry to report that walking 10k+ steps a day makes me feel healthier and happier
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one day i will finally learn that going to bed on time and working out every day are non-negotiable
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we need another name for Generation Beta immediately. this is unacceptable! my children will not be beta babies
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i am once again begging you to stop brute forcing your psyche into altered states of being that bypass your load-bearing psychological defenses and lead to the construction of new pathways that are, best case, inherently unstable, or worst case, destabilizing to the entire system
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do other people spend serious time thinking about how to live a more honorable life? a life aligned with their true values? with The Good? with God? sometimes it seems like no one cares or bothers anymore
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when you're single, how do you balance building a great life for yourself, with ensuring the life you build is flexible enough to welcome a partner, should you meet one?
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no amount of “research” or “studies” that you claim are “credible” or “proven” will get me to believe that parenting has a negligible impact on child outcomes
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i’m convinced humans have telepathic powers that weaken the more they communicate verbally
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an overlooked part of why this is such a misstep is, when you truly believe you’re better than a competitor, directly comparing yourself to them just conveys you believe you’re peers in the same class. it’s much better to convey superiority by conveying individuality, separation
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do people actually think getting married and having a baby are pure chance and luck? i think they take a shitload of work and willpower
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