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Those three pillars are my best assessment of how I managed to find myself as the singular best in the world at what I was doing (nothing career worthy, though it did point me in that direction). I was lucky that my parents got me started on it at a very young age, my other hobbies were strongly synergistic meaning I was spending much of my time developing related skills, when I first got into it I just randomly happened to meet up with the group that I reached the top with, so being surrounded by such excellent company had a massive impact. I met so many people who had very strong talent and dedicated themselves, but just never got the breaks I did. But like you said, it was largely because I already had the talent from early childhood learning and had remained dedicated my whole life that I was capable of fitting in when I did meet the right people.

I strongly recommend everyone read Chris Hadfield’s “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth,” as he argues very strongly, with some great anecdotes from his life, for the importance of preparing to receive good luck.

you can try your best and still fail

One of my favourite Star Trek quotes

I’ve always said personally that to be the very best at something you need 1. Talent, 2. Dedication and 3. Luck. You can still be very close to the best with only two of those things, but if luck is all you have you’re just going to be something like a lottery winner who blows it all in a month. Alternately, if you cultivate a habit of working hard towards your goals, then even in bad situations you’ll be prepared to make the best of it that you possibly can, to get back to a good place faster.

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Yea, both Democrats and Republicans have a pretty solid history of voting in lock step on matters of giving themselves more power.

They belong together.

You can tell that someone is lying about their work in quantum physics when they claim to understand quantum physics.

Trying to push the entire world’s population into the same spaces. Sometimes, it actually does make sense to have spaces specifically for those with common experiences, like men’s and women’s spaces, or nationally segregated political spaces.

Social media NEEDING new content by the minute simply in order to survive.

Heavy reliance on volunteer moderation.

They destroyed far more than just America, everyone’s just too myopically focused on America’s problems to notice what they’ve done to themselves by attempting to copy the digitization of society.

Whoops. Accidentally suppressed discussions regarding the accidental suppression of discussions. Those darned silly technical glitches are just so unpredictable.

Collective punishment

Are ad blockers to blame?

Why do you make me hit you?

I just started cooking for myself. Began simply with pizza from scratch. Dough and sauce are both easy to make from raw ingredients, and the result is far better than frozen or delivery.

Pretty sure

I wasn’t being silly. They’ve literally been pushing that argument.

On the off chance that you’re serious, methane also breaks down incredibly fast, so it’s a complete non issue regardless of how much they produce.

Neither the position to keep all the old solutions because they are old nor to adopt all the new solutions because they are new is sensible.

That’s what really bothers me about it. I actually got an education in STEM and was really hyped to contribute to building new technologies, until I came to understand that the people leading the charge appear to be hardliners driving as forcefully as they can to implement a completely artificial world right here and now.

They’re already attacking agriculture for the existential threat of cow farts.

The more I’ve learned about technology, the more hardline I’ve become against having it in my life.

The world is not a blank slate to paint on. Every new thing that you add to your life takes away something which used to be there in previous generations, and the consequences of such can be far reaching and unpredictable. Society as it was, was not built overnight through deliberate intention, but was hard won by millennia of blood, sweat and tears. Changing everything now on the whims of fully grown toddlers who are so wealthy that they’ve never even been aware of the existence of the real world is the peak of insanity.

While I also disagree with the claim that technology is “fundamentally” insecure

For pretty much everyone other than perhaps the CIA and Mosad, it is.

Computer technology is fundamentally insecure so long as everything is connected all the time. It drives me mental that idiots keep trying to foist the whole of human society onto devices which are clearly unfit for the task.