Sean Kim
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- The Passion Trap: How the Search for Your Life’s Work is Making Your Working Life Miserable - Cal Newport1 savers
- asciinema - Record and share your terminal sessions, the right way2 savers
- Cities and Ambition47 savers
- The Chokehold of Calendars | by Mike Monteiro | Medium1 savers
- Mimetic - Brian Timar44 savers
- Against Ambition - taimur.me7 savers
- punk6529 · Twitter · 1/ On How Short Life Is A few years ago, I was walking around in a bl...4 savers
- Your intuitions are not magic - LessWrong2 savers
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the message the Valley sends is: you should be more powerful
Cities and AmbitionIf your job is to produce things such as code, comps, analyses, flow documents, etc., then why isn’t the time to do that on your calendar?
The Chokehold of Calendars | by Mike Monteiro | MediumThat’s the mimetic trap in a nutshell: it hurts to leave, and there’s nowhere to go. It decouples the social reward signal from the rest of objective reality — you can spend years ascending ranks in a hierarchy without producing anything that the rest of humanity finds valuable. If you value the process itself, that’s fine. I didn’t.
Mimetic - Brian TimarHumans inherit convictions mimetically from each other — we learn what to value by imitating our peers.
Mimetic - Brian TimarPlacing value on “ambition” lets society decide what’s important to us, and encourages us to inherit the desires of others.
Against Ambition - taimur.meIt is mathematically certain now that about 99% of the time I will ever spend with them, in the rest of my life, I have already done so.
punk6529 · Twitter · 1/ On How Short Life Is A few years ago, I was walking around in a bl...The problem is that if those assumptions are not valid, most statistical tests do not cleanly fail and produce obviously false results.
Your intuitions are not magic - LessWrong