A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
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A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
5d ago
But not sword canes?!
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
8d ago
Cialdini's Influence is about why people don't listen to advice. Hickman on Twitter wrote:
Many times, "advice-giving" has little to do with advice, and more to do with posing thought experiments that expose weakness in men.
The guys with energy, who got "the juice" say OK, you're right, go try it. The low-energy types just get madder than hell, seethe over the advice, say it's "bad advice" but can't say why -- and the guys who don't need the advice are perfectly secure, well-aware they don't need it.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
9d ago
How do you know of this cousin but not reversed? Why don't you reach out? I have many distant cousins who I've only gotten to know in the last few months, it's a rather nice experience!
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
10d ago
Fair enough! Not badgering, but curious: At what point would you be comfortable investing additional resources into this as a vanity business? And why do you care about status effects like being published considering the fallen state of these "institutions"? Is this an issue of living a "double" life where you care about public respectedness and signalling though you private disagree with it?
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
10d ago
Why do you worship jackpots?
Build more edge rather than risk more size. Don’t kill yourself chasing the jackpot. Log wealth is what matters. Maximize the 50th percentile outcome. Make your own luck. Avoid drawdowns.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
10d ago
Self publishing is much more profitable:
My old publisher pays me 10% royalties on net profit of books sold, which ends up being more like 5% of the sale price. Leanpub is paying 80% on sticker price as royalties. One copy of LfP sold nets me about as much as 15 copies of Practical TLA+.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
16d ago
If the shot at a successful and independent life means that I could also, with equal or even higher probability, end up destitute, i'll take the deal so long as I am in control of myself
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3xjgM7hcNznACRzBi/the-jackpot-age
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
18d ago
I read it like Chsterton's:
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
18d ago
We do not want to be like the Greeks, powerful and prosperous wherever we settle, but with a dead Greece behind us - John Buchan
Interesting. Digging I only find stuff like:
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