Cyril_HN's comments

I think people forget that the purpose of performance is one of two things:

1. To perform for its own sake.

2. To drill the specific skill of live performance.

If you don't want to do either of those things, it is not an efficient way to improve. You must perform to hone the skill of performance, but you should not perform to practice other skills.

Caveat: sometimes you can't drill multiple skills together and performance is the only context where you can. However, performing with that in mind is very different to performing generally.

This could be great for their porn business. How many people don't subscribe to OnlyFans because it shows up on their bank statement and it means 'I pay people to make porn'? This could add the degree of plausible deniability needed (for banks, spouses, etc.) to make people much more comfortable.

Once you do it once, you have to do it forever?

Founders are a sub class of solo ventures. Athletes, artists, musicians, actors etc. all are going through the same basic things at the core.

Exactly my thought. Surely, if you're a criminal and you're actually successful, then you want to use open source privacy. Heck, if only to hide your usage with everyone else's right? It's not unusual to have Signal on your phone. It's pretty weird to have Anom or whatever else exists

Oh, wow, that helped highlight my own hypocrisy.

I thought, "Obviously next Friday means 'not this Friday, but the one after.'" But, 'next exit' always means the most immediate exit to me. So I suppose 'next Friday' could reasonably mean the most immediate Friday, too.

Underlining is a common way to indicate links. However, Substack allows the author to decide whether to make links bright blue or merely underlined.

I gotta say, smoking has not been an addiction for me. After a year of smoking, I quit. I realised I literally didn't get enjoyment from it anymore. 6 years later, here I am, having tasted a cigar just to experience it and otherwise having never thought about tobacco or had urges.

I don't think smoking is always addictive. But, given that it is for almost everyone, I'm utterly fascinated why it wasn't for me.

Interestingly, I wouldn't suggest that that has anything (or much) at all to do with "elite" universities.

At St Andrews I didn't find that to be true. At a far less prestigious university, it was true. My cohort largely agrees with that assessment, too.

Yeah, Kitchen Aid is all hand made still AFAIK. So, it should be easy to fix, too.

In undergrad, my professor explained to me in very candid terms (from the position of being a generous mentor) that the optimal path to success in the Arts and Social Sciences is:

1. Find a niche only a couple of people operate in.

2. Make friends with them at all costs and work in their area.

3. Review each others work, amassing enormous citations in highly respected (albeit sometimes niche) journals.

The eyes aren't quite right and sometimes.thr voice is a little off, but I probably wouldn't notice in a real world setting without prior knowledge.

> The 'big problem' is that a lot of small fish in the market might be in the top 20% are making 'some money' from stocks, and will push back against rectifications, all the while not realizing that though they are 'getting a better deal than the bottom 80%' ... those above them, i.e. the 5%, 1% and 0.1% are getting gigantically better deals.

> The 0.1% is screwing over the 1% as bad as the 1% is screwing over the 10% as bad as the 10% is screwing over the middle class as bad as the middle class is screwing over the working class.

I don't want to sound flippant when I say, I think that GME and a lot of the Reddit hype has helped to alleviate this among that successful 20%.

I think many of that group are seeing that, while the structure of the system does allow them to succeed more than the other 80%, the system isn't built with them in mind. So, when the system is threatened, it will hurt them happily. Furthermore, I think they have started to not just know, but genuinely understand, that the top of the top is further away from them than they realise and far, far more advantaged than they realised too.

That, of course, is just one recent and notable example of these realisations.

An outside temperature of 1.5c is 34.7f. an increase of 1.5c would take the temperature to 3c or 37.4f

Every 1c you increase is equivalent to 1.8f

What sort of evidence would we expect to see if that was true?

I think a lot of amateur pool players will feel that. They get into a rhythm and start potting everything. Then they either beak the rhythm, get a difficult shot, or notice their success, over think it all and mess up the mechanics.

This analogy doesn't go particular far, but it works to explain the difference between conscious and subconscious mechanical focus.

I'll take some fiat, some proof of work, and some proof of stake. That's a better risk profile than only having 2 of 3.

Stove top Bialetti is my sweet spot for coffee (price, taste, effort), honestly. But, I've tried Aero Press when friends have offered and they're a little better, for sure.

Yeah. 100 kettle bell swings and 10 get-ups, in 20 minutes, sounds pretty brutal.

Why do business journals work that way?