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Well intentioned drivel… • About 99% of the time, the right time is right now. Home refinance? Travel during a pandemic? • No one is as impressed with your p
by testbjjl 4y ago
Well intentioned drivel…
• About 99% of the time, the right time is right now.
Home refinance? Travel during a pandemic?
• No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.
Search HN for Elon Musk
• Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become.
Search HN for Musk, Gates, Jobs, Ellison, Dorsey, Graham, Thiel,
• Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.
If I knew 12 million people I would have little time for the 12, most likely just my immediate family and primarily offspring
• Dont keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.
Retirement plans come to mind. Relationships is another one where I don’t want new mistakes
• If you stop to listen to a musician or street performer for more than a minute, you owe them a dollar.
My dollar and a vote to value culture, people, art, expression even not to my liking. This applies to any creative endeavor to be consumed.
• Anything you say before the word “but” does not count.
I love ice cream, it it gives me gas.
• When you forgive others, they may not notice, but you will heal. Forgiveness is not something we do for others; it is a gift to ourselves.
Don’t learn to forgive. Learn to forget. Better yet learn to not become attached to become angry.
• Courtesy costs nothing. Lower the toilet seat after use. Let the people in the elevator exit before you enter. Return shopping carts to their designated areas. When you borrow something, return it better shape (filled up, cleaned) than when you got it.
Sure. Treat others as you want to be treated. I think I have heard that one before.
• Whenever there is an argument between two sides, find the third side.
Slavery. Abortion. Access to the ballot. Immigration. Nuclear war. Child sex trafficking.
- paulpauper 4y agoagree , this read like dated boomer advice from someone who lucked out tons of obvious counterexamples to his advice
- haolez 4y agoYou are an aggressive fellow, but I enjoyed your insights :)
- testbjjl 4y agoI wish I could phrase things differently. Aggression doesn’t typically add value.
- AndyNemmity 4y agoIt's not your phrasing at all. Your phrasing was fine. It was that you didn't assume good faith when reading. That doesn't add value with exception for scammers, charlatans, and thieves.
- AndyNemmity 4y agoIt's funny you start with "well intentioned drivel", and then proceed to assume the worst intentions in every statement, and critique them as such.