one of the biggest realisations i had as an adult was that i don't owe yesterday anything. every time that alarm goes off i can become someone new, and the only thing stopping me is myself.
There has never been a better time to make things. A kid with a laptop has more firepower and resources than anyone at any point in history. Never doom. BUILD.
kirk demonstrated that the public killing of your enemy is energizing for your side and demoralizing to your opponents, at a primal, tribal level. the great cry over this livestream comes from an instinctual understanding of this fact. be very suspicious of those who agree.
the point of being a hater is having taste. For everything you hate on you must have something you just as enthusiastically recommend. Otherwise you’re a cancer upon society
I think it flushes out a lot of people around here when I get ~20 of our friends hired and $3 million in payroll (all of this is pending, none of it is finalized, other than the first $85k hire) and people start getting angry at me for doing the things we always talked about doing.
WW2 is the civic religion of all Boomers and Social Security is the 72 virgins they were promised as long as they denounce Hitler and betray their grandchildren for cheap foreign labor.
the traits we are told to grow out of are often the ones that actually make us interesting in the first place. 'maturity' often just means becoming more palatable to norms
@HariSel57511397 "Cringe" has become a slur for sincerity, designed to kill joy and talent starting when we're children. Adults need to exorcise it just like any other schoolmarm control word.