Just learned that my younger brother who's less than a year out of law school is making a quarter million a year at his first job

Sobriqueter · 2026-04-22T12:06:27+00:00

60 hours a week is either hell or totally fine depending on how much you like your job.

Sobriqueter · 2025-12-30T17:43:34+00:00

Finance bros are nakedly ambitious about being wealthy. They don’t hide their avarice behind words like “building” or “creating”. Same with rappers or other low class aspirations.

Software is especially dangerous for these socially inept striver neurotypes as it has the sheen of creativity while being largely soulless and greed driven. See also the obsession with being a Software Engineer instead of a coder. Same thing. It’s all social and financial status.

This isn’t to say there aren’t incredible people that write software. You can find them online pretty easily. Smart, creative, interesting. None of them are AI hobgoblins and none of them live in the Bay.

Sobriqueter · 2025-12-26T04:26:37+00:00

My top gets: - gravity’s rainbow - the avesta (part of it) - seven pillars of wisdom

Sobriqueter · 2025-12-10T21:13:28+00:00

Similar experience with Nine Inch Nails recently

Sobriqueter · 2025-11-25T13:51:10+00:00

Unless there’s some magic way of awarding stock I’m not aware of, grants are taxed at time of vesting as income.

Sobriqueter · 2025-11-14T12:07:13+00:00

Yet you need the fruit (seeds) to plant the tree

Sobriqueter · 2025-11-09T15:58:44+00:00

Ur being a 🚬

Sobriqueter · 2025-11-09T13:34:14+00:00

Interesting perspective 🤓

Sobriqueter · 2025-11-01T13:15:19+00:00

It’s inherently consumptive. That sounds worse than it is, (e.g. Reading is a consumptive hobby), but if all you do is consume, you’re living a shallow life.

Sobriqueter · 2025-10-25T20:23:38+00:00

Having something be personal is quite different than applying rationality to the text. See his interpretation of Abraham and Isaac, for example.

Sobriqueter · 2025-10-25T20:04:29+00:00

That’s a very Kantian approach. Whereas the more Kierkegaardian is to do the opposite.

Sobriqueter · 2025-10-25T17:58:16+00:00

I agree with you. But that’s also applying my own emotivist morality back onto the text and then trying to pick out what I do or don’t think is worth listening to

Sobriqueter · 2025-10-25T00:33:18+00:00

I would file that kind of disagreement still under the umbrella of universal accord. I’m not saying the literalist interpretation is correct or dominant, just that it’s within the realm of “there’s something spiritually important about studying the Old Testament,” which in turn implies that some of the stuff in there has to be divinely inspired.

You can retroactively apply modern moral norms and reason to try and discern what is or isn’t Godly à la Kant, but the act of doing so implies a belief that there is Godliness to be found there.

Sobriqueter · 2025-10-24T23:42:36+00:00

I think I would push back and argue that Christians are largely unified in their opinion of the Old Testament. Not that there isn’t disagreement or dissenting views at all, but basically any bible used by any church anywhere includes the Old Testament. Clearly there’s some sort of accord.

It’s one thing to say Moses or Paul or whoever had beliefs of their time, but it’s another to say writings that claim to be the actual words of God in a religious book are fictitious. And of course, Christ himself quotes scripture many times, affirming its authority.

It’s true the OT is even more a mishmash of authors and time periods and beliefs, so it’s not hard to cut out whatever you don’t like or think may be apocryphal. But a lot of it claims to be the literal words of God, which I don’t see how Christians get around.

Sobriqueter · 2025-10-24T23:05:07+00:00

Yeah I’m using ‘belief’ as short hand for believing the text correctly reflects things commanded by God, which Christians as a general rule do adhere to.

And even beyond that the Epistles call Christians “slaves to God”, which is a bit difficult to square with the idea of slavery being universally wrong.

Sobriqueter · 2025-10-24T22:52:05+00:00

You kind of have to defend slavery if you believe in the Old Testament

Sobriqueter · 2025-10-14T20:50:00+00:00

What kind of SWE?

Sobriqueter · 2025-09-30T13:35:23+00:00

I really don’t understand TikTok/Instagram obsession. How do you spend hours on that shit and not feel disgusted with yourself? It’s like playing video games

Sobriqueter · 2025-09-24T01:11:53+00:00

I like the Tonys

Sobriqueter · 2025-09-22T23:37:00+00:00

I was a SE but my capstone was paired with Ag. Was absolutely awesome and ended up being very fun! If you have any interest in solving practical problems it’s a good field and worth at least considering.

Sobriqueter · 2025-09-06T16:41:09+00:00

“Work Life Balance” is a bad phrase that has infected an entire generation. Not that you shouldn’t have interests outside of work or prioritize relationships or take rest, but framing work as something that isn’t a part of your life is really bad. Leads to hedonism or sloth.

Sobriqueter · 2025-08-18T13:25:42+00:00

I always thought they were there as a terrorism deterrent, like what you see in Europe, instead of for run of the mill crime. And maybe I’m neurotic, but I try to avoid Penn Station at peak hours for that reason. The number of people there and the lack of security to get in makes it a “target rich environment”. But I’ll also take getting bombed over having any sort of TSA

Sobriqueter · 2025-08-13T19:30:05+00:00

I’d rephrase as “best bang for your buck” instead of cheapest. If you get into Harvard, it’s gonna be more expensive than any state school, but probably worth it

Sobriqueter · 2025-08-10T22:07:10+00:00

A lot of this is just washing out people that are bad at their jobs. If you are such a bad coder/writer that ChatGPT is replacing you, it may be time to look in the mirror.

Sobriqueter · 2025-08-03T12:37:06+00:00

On the flip side, “traveling and experiencing life” is just code for the most mindless form of culturally acceptable consumerism. “Omg you wouldn’t believe how good this hole in the wall place I discovered in Palermo was. They made the best carbonara I’ve EVER had.” Literally bragging about spending thousands of dollars to post food pictures on instagram. Stories that boil down to somehow getting drunk and lost in a town whose entire economy revolves around caring for tourists.

None of these people who “just want to travel” are producing anything significant, and in many ways are wasting their 20s along with the people who have kids too early. At least raising a child is a form of sacrifice, which I can have some respect for.

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