not just once in a while but there are certain things you shud be spending more money than you can afford.
- wine
- coffee beans
- gym
- shoes
- hooker
- codex
- cologne
- dinner
why nerds are more likely to be in the permanent middle class.
“people who can’t code choose marketing or growth roles”
this was my take at one point in time.
why should i write content and make flowers on the site when i can solve greater problems with my engineering capabilities to move humanity forward?
("chill bro")
i felt like marketing, growth, and community are chosen by ppl who don’t have higher intellect.
but i was wrong and wanna apologise for that.
when i started my own business i realised distribution is more important than the product itself.
hence marketing, growth, and community building are equally important.
this made me realise everything has its own significance, and most of us who are nerds spend our time thinking that picking these non-technical things would be an insult to our intellect.
but that’s wrong.
even money-wise these non-technical skills pay as much as technical skills when you know the game.
top marketers making the same as top developers.
top community builders making shit loads of money with their own distribution.
nerds are more prone to this ego coz each time they solve a problem, the dopamine hit feeds a little to the ego. it’s just human nature.
but in reality, everything plays a role, and you can make money in everything.
put the ego aside and do what makes you crazy money and brings joy.
one sporting discipline that i think you missed and is physically very rewarding is Squash.
I’ve always enjoyed any game involving a racket. My cousin and I played badminton in our teenage, and I also played squash, not competitively and mostly solo, up against a wall, in college.
the kind of discipline and endurance thats required is unmatched.
For those who donno, generally in squash two players take turns to return a small rubber ball, that bounces off a front wall, and even three other walls as well.
The game is really quick and intense. It has a serious reputation for injuries and heart attacks in players, mostly cause you are always sprinting with little to no rest in between a rally.
I have had love/hate relationship with the sport just cause of the sheer amount of pain n injuries it brings every other day so yeah i totally resonate with your point why endurance sport thats less injury prone are more prominent.
Notice how they gravitate towards endurance sports that basically only require grind/discipline (marathons, cycling, lifting, Ironmans) vs skill-based ones (golf, tennis, sailing, etc)
They want a clean effort → outcome relationship. If you train consistently, your 10k time, deadlift or HYROX time will usually improve linearly.
Golf and tennis are much more psychologically tough. You can practise for years and suddenly play worse. Progress is nonlinear, technique-sensitive, and often exposed directly against another person. You can’t simply brute-force your way into feeling competent.
Same for the modern high-agency / ambitious professionals looking for achievement outside work. As their careers become increasingly nonlinear and probabilistic (working twice as hard won’t guarantee you the promotion, building twice as good a product won’t guarantee anyone buys it), they increasingly pick sports where progress is linear-ish, quantifiable and attributable to effort. Basically the meritocracy they thought their career would be.