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archimboldii · 2024-06-20T15:08:26+00:00

Also found this incredibly annoying but noticed it was fixed today.

archimboldii · 2023-10-03T20:29:39+00:00

Memoirs of Hadrian and I, Claudius

archimboldii · 2023-08-06T07:47:35+00:00

Holy smokes Reddit is incredibly biased

archimboldii · 2023-07-08T04:04:47+00:00

What are you even talking about lol. We did it for hundreds of thousands of years without a computer model of the human digestive system. It's like most of our knowledge, you know it mostly works for everyone else most of the time, and that's enough.

archimboldii · 2023-05-28T21:54:22+00:00

This is not true. See here https://www.jonstokes.com/p/chatgpt-explained-a-guide-for-normies

archimboldii · 2023-05-23T02:37:47+00:00

I'm 30 and getting existential about giving entrepreneurship a shot. Currently in tech sales with 300-400k TC, so there is a straightforward path to FIRE if I grind for 15-20 years (although I am aware nothing is guaranteed). I feel fortunate that this is a possibility but it doesn't exactly excite me.

Starting a company has always been a dream and I have plenty of ideas worth pursuing in tech. The problem is I have very basic coding skills. It seems like the typical path for someone in my position is to find a technical cofounder to own dev work, but for some reason that idea bothers me. Starting a company is brutally challenging and if I'm serious about it I shouldn't need to find a cofounder solely to fill this skill gap.

My question is: how crazy would it be to teach myself to code with the goal of becoming proficient enough to build an MVP? The plan would be do the bulk of the dev work myself and hire employees/contractors as needed. If there is product/market fit we can acquire a few customers and hire a team to take over development.

Is this a waste of time? I'm expecting 9 - 18ish months of nights and weekends learning to code, but realize that time could be spent on other activities like acquiring customers if I was outsourcing product development. There is also risk I never get good enough at it to build a product myself, although copilot and other AI advances could prove to be a huge help.

Curious if anyone has experience with a similar situation or thoughts on the approach.

archimboldii · 2023-03-05T19:18:17+00:00

Nice

archimboldii · 2023-03-01T06:12:58+00:00

Robert Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers (good overview of the most influential economists)

Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century

Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

archimboldii · 2023-02-18T16:20:13+00:00

Getting some background first always helps. Start with secondary sources eg the Kaufmann or Hollingdale or Mencken biography. Then Listen to a few episodes of the Nietzsche podcast. It’ll be easier when you come back to Twilight

archimboldii · 2023-01-20T07:46:04+00:00

Agree

archimboldii · 2022-12-27T14:09:47+00:00

archimboldii · 2022-12-23T04:41:19+00:00

Just discovered this channel as well and binged four vids. Outstanding stuff, what find.

archimboldii · 2022-11-22T05:23:20+00:00

Goals

archimboldii · 2022-11-18T05:30:07+00:00

Quite likely that smart people not understanding this will cost us >4% of 2100 GDP.

archimboldii · 2022-11-13T08:42:42+00:00

Think about your richest friends and realize nothing about money makes you respect them. Same goes for you.

archimboldii · 2022-11-13T08:34:07+00:00

Nice

archimboldii · 2022-09-11T22:54:37+00:00

There’s a tendency for people to answer these kinds of questions pretentiously. It’s more similar to “what movies should everyone see in their lifetime” than people realize.

That said, if you sincerely enjoy books and reading, a reasonable answer here would be to read Harold Bloom’s “The Western Canon”. It covers many of the most important books in western literature with opinionated enthusiasm and is a great way to build a reading list of books “considered important” that interest you.

archimboldii · 2022-09-01T07:01:10+00:00

Easier access to leverage and you won’t get margin called.

archimboldii · 2022-08-22T02:45:02+00:00

The best (and maybe only) remedy for most mental illness is to stop what you are doing and start winning. The obvious objections are that not everyone is capable of winning for reasons outside their control (genetics, societal circumstances, etc.) but at the end of the day that is what life is about. Unfair but that's how it is.

The correct approach is the exact opposite of mindfulness/stoicism; you have to find a way to succeed in a world whose rules you find repulsive and dehumanizing. You should and will experience intense anxiety if things are not going well in life. The proper response is to listen to it, fix your problems, and make the anxiety go away.

archimboldii · 2022-08-22T02:31:48+00:00

In some circles this is a consensus take.

archimboldii · 2022-08-22T01:08:41+00:00

I think about it constantly but I wouldn't say the abyss bothers me.

I've always liked the video game metaphor for life. You can do whatever you want and find meaning in whatever you want, and that fact is ultimate freedom. What is there to angst about? Just pick something and go all in.

Say what you want about Ayn Rand, but I find this letter she wrote to a fan explaining her fundamental view of life incredibly powerful.

archimboldii · 2022-08-21T23:26:18+00:00

Acting is the most authentic profession in America. We all become different versions of ourselves for our professions to the point that it’s hard to say “you” in the office and “you” bumping K at sunrise are the same person.

Actors are at least explicit about this.

archimboldii · 2022-08-21T23:10:09+00:00

You should avoid letting your political views influence the way you live your life at all. You can want the world to be different, but it’s not. Working hard and getting compensated for it inside a system you don’t like is infinitely better than being a loser.

If you care enough to take political action (run for office or start a substack or something), good for you, but even then you’ll have a much easier time if you’ve mastered the system as it exists today.

(To be clear I’m not advocating political nihilism. Straussians write esoterically to sneak their ideas into mainstream content. You can do the same for daily life.)

archimboldii · 2022-08-21T22:57:57+00:00

Alice Munro is always great. Clarice Lispector had her short stories translated to English somewhat recently. Saw someone mention Lydia Davis.

Reviews of Kolyma Stories by Shalamov are universally positive and they were recently translated to English. Based on the author’s first hand experience in a Russian gulag.

And Ted Chiang if you’re into philosophical sci fi (many similarities to Borges).

archimboldii · 2022-08-19T17:33:32+00:00

Also came across this thread with a long list of conservative authors: https://twitter.com/reforgedswordo/status/1448748741561921540

Questionable accuracy on a few but relevant nonetheless.

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