p0ints

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by p0ints 8y ago
I'm feeling the same. I think it's very common. That's what motivates people to go above and beyond and try to be financially independent - as the alternative is having very little from life until you're old and retired.
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by p0ints 8y ago
Regarding falling asleep - I've noticed an interesting phenomenon in myself. Usually it takes me around 30 minutes to fall asleep, during which period I seem to gradually mellow, my internal narrative becomes weaker until I finally fal
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by p0ints 8y ago
> Even Russia did kind of ok. That may be true from 10 thousand miles away. Upon closer inspection, there's a huge difference in current wealth and standard of living between Russia and say Finland, while 100 years ago they were rou
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by p0ints 9y ago
> it made me realise you can generally achieve the things you want in life if you focus on them I'd be cautious here; video games are designed, artificial worlds where difficulty level is carefully controlled by the maker. They are
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by p0ints 9y ago
> What would happen to you in the workplace if you behaved like a Westerner and looked for opportunities to contribute to others' priorities, praised others' work, and shared your productivity enhancers? I curently work in a la
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by p0ints 9y ago
I agree with most of this (I'm a Pole, currently living in Poland). I'd say that we're closer to the world norm and the Westerners are the outliers - universal wealth on an unprecedented scale has created some paradise-like c
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by p0ints 9y ago
> How to get into those heavily engineering oriented firms, like JPL or NVidia, doing the low level stuff? Maybe first try to talk to someone who does that kind of work, to see if it's even appealing to you? I say this because my un
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by p0ints 9y ago
My (anecdotal) observation is that this big4 "professionalism" is mostly a self-imporant delusion (probably imprinted into people by years of company culture and trainings), and that a lot of senior people in there are insufferabl
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by p0ints 9y ago
My view is the opposite - Poles are more honest (which usually translates to - more whiney) at their jobs than Western people, where centuries of capitalism have taught people that it's best to keep your thoughts to yourself and preten