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rinueIs this the year I finally get into Hüsker Dü? My problem has always been that I find the vocalist boring, but I was listening to a live set (in a recording) where I couldn't really hear the vocalist, and then I liked the music a lot. Potentially, if I listened to enough Hüsker Dü, I'd start singing along with it, and then the vocalist I'd hear would be me. Hmmm.
The current issue of Wired has an interview with that deranged tech guy who is trying to stay eternally young by injecting himself with his son's blood and semen and so forth, and he says something fairly revealing because I think it's a belief widely shared by our current tech guys: "Most people today spend every waking moment pursuing wealth. And the time they're not spending wealth, they're pursuing some sort of status or prestige."
Um, no. No, Bryan Johnson. No most people are not doing that. The revealed preference of most people is that they want a comfy chair and something good to watch on television, and want to spend as little time pursuing wealth and status as possible so they can spend more time in the comfy chair with the television.
It did make me think about my own motivations. Unfortunately for me, I am very much a team player, so the answer to "why did you do that" is almost always either (1) somebody asked me to or (2) I saw that it wasn't getting done - either because it was being done incompetently or because nobody stepped up at all. Absent one of those, I mostly play games and solve puzzles and read. The reason I say "unfortunately for me" is that there's an endless supply of (2) so I overclock most of the time. I have to be careful when listening to true crime podcasts because when an investigation is poorly handled I start thinking I need to switch careers and become a police detective. Just run straight toward the dysfunction.
The current issue of Wired has an interview with that deranged tech guy who is trying to stay eternally young by injecting himself with his son's blood and semen and so forth, and he says something fairly revealing because I think it's a belief widely shared by our current tech guys: "Most people today spend every waking moment pursuing wealth. And the time they're not spending wealth, they're pursuing some sort of status or prestige."
Um, no. No, Bryan Johnson. No most people are not doing that. The revealed preference of most people is that they want a comfy chair and something good to watch on television, and want to spend as little time pursuing wealth and status as possible so they can spend more time in the comfy chair with the television.
It did make me think about my own motivations. Unfortunately for me, I am very much a team player, so the answer to "why did you do that" is almost always either (1) somebody asked me to or (2) I saw that it wasn't getting done - either because it was being done incompetently or because nobody stepped up at all. Absent one of those, I mostly play games and solve puzzles and read. The reason I say "unfortunately for me" is that there's an endless supply of (2) so I overclock most of the time. I have to be careful when listening to true crime podcasts because when an investigation is poorly handled I start thinking I need to switch careers and become a police detective. Just run straight toward the dysfunction.
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Date: 2025-08-09 12:24 am (UTC)I personally spend my time pursuing the Maslovian hierarchy of somewhere to sleep and something to eat, absent which I would spend my time pursuing pastimes of my own enjoyment like writing. Maybe sleeping for a literal month just to see if I could. That might still be tier one of Maslow.
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Date: 2025-08-09 12:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-08-09 12:31 am (UTC)I value it highly!