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Alternate title: How to become delusional and get fired from your solid job that pays all your bills and allows you to save for retirement and invest, too.

by readme 14y ago

angelbob 14y ago
In silicon valley we dislike the term "delusional." It's our "reality distortion field" :-P
- readme 14y ago
  I don't have anything against dreaming big. My main observation, also from personal experience, is it's possible for someone who is otherwise content and on the right track in life to become confused by the kind of rhetoric utilized in this article. I'm all for saving money and working on side projects until you have the stability to undertake a dream without significant risk.
losethos 14y ago
I've never been fired -- quit all my jobs. Even got rehired, by two different employers. When I quit, sometimes, things were bad, though. One employer wanted me to crack the secure hash algorithm. He's delusional, not me! God says... C:\Text\Words\AUGUST.TXT path pleasurable snares, wherein his virtuous and free feet might be entangled. For when he wondered that I, whom he esteemed not slightly, should stick so fast in the birdlime of that pleasure, as to protest (so oft as we discussed it) that I could never lead a single life; and urged in my defence when I saw him wonder, that there was great difference between his momentary and scarce-remembered knowledge of that life, which so he might easily despise, and my continued acquaintance whereto if t ---- One lesson I learned is: any product that is on the market is like a olympic medalist. The market is brutal, so one thing you know about any product is it was an insane undertaking. So, if your boss seems unreasonable, every product was unreasonable. ---- The Lexmark OPTRA-T printer used a Dallas button with SHA. I worked for a company making toner and chips to refill cartridges. http://www.maxim-ic.com/app-notes/index.mvp/id/154 http://www.maxim-ic.com/app-notes/index.mvp/id/154 ---- I worked at Ticketmaster 1990-1996 and briefly in 2002 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_ticketmaster/all/1 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_ticketmaster/all/1

Alternate title: How to become delusional and get fired from your solid job that pays all your bills and allows you to save for retirement and invest, too.

by readme 14y ago

Alternate title: How to become delusional and get fired from your solid job that pays all your bills and allows you to save for retirement and invest, too.

angelbob 14y ago

In silicon valley we dislike the term "delusional." It's our "reality distortion field" :-P

readme 14y ago
I don't have anything against dreaming big. My main observation, also from personal experience, is it's possible for someone who is otherwise content and on the right track in life to become confused by the kind of rhetoric utilized in this article. I'm all for saving money and working on side projects until you have the stability to undertake a dream without significant risk.

losethos 14y ago

I've never been fired -- quit all my jobs. Even got rehired, by two different employers. When I quit, sometimes, things were bad, though. One employer wanted me to crack the secure hash algorithm. He's delusional, not me! God says... C:\Text\Words\AUGUST.TXT path pleasurable snares, wherein his virtuous and free feet might be entangled. For when he wondered that I, whom he esteemed not slightly, should stick so fast in the birdlime of that pleasure, as to protest (so oft as we discussed it) that I could never lead a single life; and urged in my defence when I saw him wonder, that there was great difference between his momentary and scarce-remembered knowledge of that life, which so he might easily despise, and my continued acquaintance whereto if t ---- One lesson I learned is: any product that is on the market is like a olympic medalist. The market is brutal, so one thing you know about any product is it was an insane undertaking. So, if your boss seems unreasonable, every product was unreasonable. ---- The Lexmark OPTRA-T printer used a Dallas button with SHA. I worked for a company making toner and chips to refill cartridges. http://www.maxim-ic.com/app-notes/index.mvp/id/154 http://www.maxim-ic.com/app-notes/index.mvp/id/154 ---- I worked at Ticketmaster 1990-1996 and briefly in 2002 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_ticketmaster/all/1 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_ticketmaster/all/1