At the intersection of tech and woo
Brooklyn, NY
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Once in a lifetime reveal asking my gf if she knew this guy that went to her school, her answering “Yeah he is really sweet!” and me telling her that he is the UHC CEO shooter
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It’s pretty cool that California has a huge fertile valley nestled away between the inhospitable, dry mountains
I imagine that this oasis must be the most desirable place to live in the state
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I’m always in awe of the way my girlfriend clutches the next 4 pages of the book she is reading
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To be clear she knew him years ago and they weren’t close, she just thought he was nice
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Every American I’ve asked for food recommendations in Japan: “Here’s a list of the best 10 spots, you have to be sure to book 3 months in advance though or you are fucked”
Every Japanese person I’ve asked: “The food is great everywhere, you can’t go wrong! Have fun!”
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This was a middle class home in the late 90s
A single income family could afford this on the salary of a man working in the waste management business
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Why does it seem like the more inner work a person does the less likely they are to maintain a relationship
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There’s no way running fruit/vegetables under some water for a second actually does anything right
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I never understood this.
Once you are on the plane you are done. You can nap, you can read, you can watch a movie. All without interruption
If you stay in the airport until the last second you have to constantly be aware of the time. You can’t get absorbed in anything
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Was talking to friends about baby names we like and it turned out that almost every name brought up was a top ~15 baby name of 2023
Is there some sort of baby name hivemind we are all unconsciously tapped into? I've never even met someone with many of these names too
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Young men who work remote will never get the formative experience of listening to their middle aged coworkers complain about their marital issues after 1 beer
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lol idk about beautiful but certainly morbidly funny. She wasn’t close with him at any rate
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The default path is criminally underrated
If you work hard enough it is less Office Space and more living in Williamsburg surrounded by friends within walking distance with a hybrid 40 hr a week tech job that gives you plenty of free time to enjoy the riches it provides you
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It's kind of funny that all the advice I got for getting a security clearance from people on the internet was to confess to everything because "the gov just cares about honesty"
And every former military person told me to lie about everything you could
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I don't get why software engineers are often embarrassed to be "just another guy in software engineering". It's obviously a high status and income career in the US
It doesn't seem like finance bros in NYC are ashamed about it, even if they are equally generic
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It honestly boggles my mind that non rich people are willing to drop ~$100 on a single therapy session
Just seems like such a bad ROI
I feel bad for people culturally coerced into spending their money on this
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Tech guys either think everyone could be a FAANG level engineer if they practiced enough or they think 30% of the population can't comprehend hypotheticals
There is no in between
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Reddit and pop culture really psyopped me into believing that adults just feel like big children faking maturity
That's not my experience at all. My inner experience is radically different to what it was just two years ago, let alone compared to myself as a kid
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I sense that the desire for perfection/(qualia?) that drives people to meditate or do inner work surgery on themselves also leads them to leave relationships that are good but not *perfect*
But also the insanely high standards "awakened" people talk about for relationships
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This can be framed as a good thing too because most people probably put up too much with bad relationships. But ultimately the idea of abandoning a good relationship because it doesn't feel "resonant in the moment" terrifies me and seems like such a flighty way to approach life
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It's hard to view lifting weights as a healthy form of exercise right now, since in NYC the only way I can do it is to descend into a fluorescent lit basement with mirrors on every wall, uncomfortably crowded with people completely disconnected from eachother with headphones
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It's pretty apparent that the conversation online is heavily influenced/controlled by the government
The security clearance subreddit has a rule that you can't recommend that people lie lol
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Yeah if you are young and don’t have kids you can have a good time in new York on 50k
idk how people spend so much money tbh
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Interestingly enough, quitting your job does not fill you with boundless energy to do all the things you want to do
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The American approach to "escaping the rat race" by hustling to build income streams outside of traditional employment seems a lot more stressful and grindy than the life of your average European worker taking 2 months of vacation a year
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Is there something particular about Japan that makes tourists want to go to the best spots? No one seems to be this neurotic about planning trips to South America or Europe afaict
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Yeah I feel like I have convinced myself there is some sort of pesticide that will just wash off easy lol
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The top 20 names really are shocking
No Chris, Matthew or John
But there is Leo, Asher, Hudson, Maverick, Kai
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tbh "europoor" is embarrassing cope
like, yes, top earners make less in Europe. But I'm not sure how much you can sneer when Europeans live several years longer, have better WLB, have access to quality food and in many respects simply lead better lives
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And yes I'm projecting because I recognize this archetype in me. When I first started meditating in college I wanted to use it to bypass social issues with the people I was around
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There's this girl in a GC with me that consistently makes just the worst arguments all the time
She recently got 99% on the LSAT
Such a black pill
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A counter intuitive observation I've had over the past few years is that consistently corporations treat employees/tenants *much* better than small businesses/regular landlords
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Can someone remind me why there is a level of hate towards Facebook that no other tech company gets?
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Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood makes me vaguely uncomfortable because it is overtly anti capitalist and radically left wing but is the #1 destination for young Amazon employees that want to live lives of excess consumption
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Also if it is just that flighty novelty seekers are just more likely to be drawn to meditation then that's fine.
I'm more worried about the meditation memeplex creating this behavior in people
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Decide you don't like it at 30?
Quit and try something else, but now with the security of a substantial safety net and actual skills to help you succeed
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Google and OpenAI won't be able to gatekeep these image models forever
It's only a matter of time before it's easy to access these models without the violence/sexual content filters
Internet is going to get very crazy
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Does the US even have regional accents anymore for young people
Doesn't really seem like a thing outside of the south
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Tech guys love showing off their lack of social calibration by treating mimetic desire as some mind blowing philosophical concept
Whoah people like copying eachother? I had no idea
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Rural, conservative young men are the Sardaukar of the American empire
We wouldn't have an effective military if everyone was raised as a coastal elite
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I see so many people in tech give this advice and rarely see reflection about how shitty it is to employees
It’s absurd to convince someone to quit their job to join your startup just to fire them if they aren’t the perfect fit. Leaving them with no income or health insurance
I suspect in most cases if startups just quickly hire one of the first solid candidates they find and quickly fire people who aren’t doing the job well they’ll do better than companies with really extensive filtering and interviewing processes
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Most of my friends aren’t married yet but I sort of see this happening. When I was just 2-3 years out of school it was easy to have the narrative that these were deep friends for life even if we don’t keep up much but that starts breaking down 5 years out :/
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Is it normal to have diminished word recollection/spelling ability at 27 or should I be concerned
It’s not super bad but noticeable to the point I can’t deny something is happening
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Christianity is the most popular religion/inner practice because it actually works for normal people unlike IFS/jhana meditation/shadow work/Gendlin focusing which only work if you are a remote tech worker that has the time and energy to navel gaze all day
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Just like every man secretly believes he could stop an armed robbery, every man believes he could consume an entire grocery store in under a year
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So I didn't get a position after a final round interview
Recruiter called me on Friday, and said he wanted to talk to me Monday about other opportunities since the team loved me and I was #2
Turns out i get to go through the entire interview process again for another team. Yay
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Being from Colorado is kind of like being from Europe
It's beautiful and a nice place to live but is also deeply unvital. No one has ever heard of a "Coloradoan" accomplishing anything of note
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ADHDer who just railed 3 fat lines: “I wish I could experience getting high from cocaine like neurotypical people instead of just feeling functional”
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I think the ideal of being your own boss is overly fetishized in American culture
I think it is only really a minority of people that would actually prefer having to deal with all the responsibility that comes with it
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I'm trying to eat more fiber and everyone says to eat a bunch of "veggies" and "fruit" but they all have like 2g of fiber per serving
Meanwhile this industrially produced, seed oil infused tortilla has 25g for 110 calories
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Actually this isn't true because the first time my old remote team met up after a year of year of working together, the middle aged men started talking about this at dinner
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Just ended an interview early after the founder asked if I was excited to work 70 hour weeks
I’m done wasting my time interviewing for early stage startups
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I like coding but I know I don't like it as much as the people who put in 8 hours at their job and then often spend their evenings hacking on side projects
I can't imagine HATING it and trying to do this for a career. Would be exhausting
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IMO he seems a bit obsessed with posting of lot of photos of him on vacation and eating fancy dinners, so you can question whether this shift is desirable
But my point is that it's crazy what money can do to a mf's social status, thus it's silly to act like SWE isn't high status
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This Google guy from my school that I don't know friended me on FB and seeing his transformation is quite interesting.
In his college photos he looked schlubby, overweight and balding. Now he is jacked, has a hot girlfriend, presumably got hair plugs, wears nice clothes etc
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The last thing atomized westerners need is to nitpick all their relationships to death because they can be happy meditating alone in their studio apartment
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Atleast when he has his existential crisis he will have a cozy remote FAANG job where you have to work 20 hours a week
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Kinda ironic that the longer you spend resisting the American gravity well of atomized suburban life by living in expensive coastal cities, the more atomized you will be when you finally have to move to the midwest suburbs for financial/family reasons and have no friends
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I only ever met one real friend at the climbing gym and at his bachelor party he remarked how crazy it was how fast and easily we became close friends. Funny how easy it was despite it being a rare occurrence for both of us
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No you don’t understand, a woman who worked in a strip club said that married men and unmarried men alike would come to the club. That’s 100% of men
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Sure but the delta between the online conversation and what informed people say IRL is striking
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To be clear I'm not talking about being embarrassed to be in tech because of moral type reasons.
Just disagree with the "I can't get a gf because I'm just a boring Google engineer" mentality
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I love how every week I have to go through the moral dilemma of determining what level of chicken suffering I am willing to pay to prevent when I buy my eggs
It would be easier if it was a binary good/bad choice like most food, but the ~5 tiers of morality makes it a struggle
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I feel pretty bad when people ask me if I think they should quit their jobs to do a bootcamp/find a dev job
It's still possible and I don't want to crush their aspirations but man it's tough out there for junior people right now
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I find it pretty intriguing that people can inhabit this space on Twitter where people are constantly talking about intense, life altering experiences they have had doing meditation, yoga any other woo thing and respond with "yeah I don't buy it/see no value in it"
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Move aside Ghibli fantasy of a kindly baker giving you shelter and a job and enter the dream of living in a corporate high-rise where they actually fix your washing machine and don't sexually harass your girlfriend
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something a bit sad about all the tech/math guys trying to 'solve' wordle.
Can't you just let it be a fun thing to do without finding the ideal strategy
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I have empathy for dancers who lack self confidence because their fears are totally valid
If you look bad while dancing people actually will film you and laugh at you on the internet!
Like yeah people should still get past that fear but it is a tall order!
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People idolize the image of a village where the people own and run everything, but many people who own these things are horrible!
No major corporation would make someone go into work with covid, but my friend was at a small company where that was the policy
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Everyone always complains about how school in the US doesn't let kids be creative but the forced creativity activities were the fucking worst
In highschool I wanted to learn math and science, not do weird contrived projects about books and countries
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Devastated to hear that Andrew Huberman has a history of abusive behavior to women
At least the biohacking community still has Bryan Johnson to look up to
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Whenever I meditate my brain just starts rendering 3D models of maps from different shooter games I played a lot in middle school
They are just burned into my brain like an image in a CRT
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It's actually a testament to the benefits of lifting weights that it is worth doing despite this inhuman environment!
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I think a common reaction to this would be, "go out where??"
I don't think many men feel like they have a regular environment they go to where they would feel comfortable flirting with women. Can't do work, gyms, the street, grocery stores, who meets in bars anymore etc
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I'm not sure if it's just *the algorithm* but posts about vibe camp seem a lot less positive this year. Feel like I heard nothing but amazing things last year.
Just an observation from the outside - hope people had a great time
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Not to mention the effect on the social fabric that comes with everyone being their own boss
It can be annoying if everyone is trying to promote and sell their thing
I might be particularly sensitive to this as I grew up cringing at seeing my dad grow his MLM business
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"I've changed and manipulated time so that every moment of perception is a new day. My 1,000,000th day starts at noon"
You can just declare *this* moment anew.
And it's a skill to learn how to do that! Stuckness/ thrashing loops on itself, until dropped
It's ~equal parts physiological & meaning making. The next day is natural , but you can also imbue that renewal into any moment with ritual
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The US is great for driving the world's innovation but there have been some substantial tradeoffs in livability
I'm glad both exist
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