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You know how these articles never end? "So I've decided to give away all my riches to the less fortunate and go back to scraping by for a living like everyone e

by noam87 10y ago

You know how these articles never end? "So I've decided to give away all my riches to the less fortunate and go back to scraping by for a living like everyone else." Give me a break. Don't like managing your wealth? Just let it sit in your bank account (after all, it doesn't really matter that much if it grows or not right?). Don't like mistrusting people? Live a humble lifestyle and there's no reason they'd ever suspect you're wealthy. I've met plenty flip-flop and $10 shirt millionaires. Can't figure out your "purpose" in life? Sounds like you have too much time and too little imagination; join a charity they'd be glad to keep you busy.

wolfgke 10y ago
> Can't figure out your "purpose" in life? Sounds like you have too much time and too little imagination; join a charity they'd be glad to keep you busy. I openly say that this would probably something that is to me very far away from giving a purpose - quite the opposite. Perhaps because I am a nerd and charities typically "do something social involving humans", while I think all the time when, say, teaching children from disadvantaged background (just an arbitrary example) of how one can scale the impact by a factor of 10 (or if this is too simple) by 100 - for example using modern technology. So my hints for finding a purpose: 1. Study mathematics: So many hard, important and unsolved problems to solve - many of them having a deep impact on humanity if someone would tackle and solve them. 2. Learn programming and solve deep problems that you find. For those for which 1 is too hardcore. This is HN, so I hope I don't have to write anything further about this. 3. If you still into charities, found one that has "how can we scale our impact by a factor of 10 as soon as possible" in mind all the time instead of "doing something social with humans" (no experience with this, though, but this is the only kind of charity that I can imagine having fun working at).

by noam87 10y ago

wolfgke 10y ago

> Can't figure out your "purpose" in life? Sounds like you have too much time and too little imagination; join a charity they'd be glad to keep you busy. I openly say that this would probably something that is to me very far away from giving a purpose - quite the opposite. Perhaps because I am a nerd and charities typically "do something social involving humans", while I think all the time when, say, teaching children from disadvantaged background (just an arbitrary example) of how one can scale the impact by a factor of 10 (or if this is too simple) by 100 - for example using modern technology. So my hints for finding a purpose: 1. Study mathematics: So many hard, important and unsolved problems to solve - many of them having a deep impact on humanity if someone would tackle and solve them. 2. Learn programming and solve deep problems that you find. For those for which 1 is too hardcore. This is HN, so I hope I don't have to write anything further about this. 3. If you still into charities, found one that has "how can we scale our impact by a factor of 10 as soon as possible" in mind all the time instead of "doing something social with humans" (no experience with this, though, but this is the only kind of charity that I can imagine having fun working at).