porcheetoh

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by porcheetoh 4y ago
I have this heuristic I use to determine whether someone is worth listening to, or whether I should ignore them. Look, it rejects Bill Gates! I’m very smart. Look, everyone uses heuristics to assess the world. Turns out yours is somewhat br
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by porcheetoh 4y ago
Every time something goes wrong with my watch I have to fully unpair and reset it. Every time! It’s very frustrating. But when everything is working, I find it to be super useful… so what are you going to do?
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by porcheetoh 4y ago
This 100%. I try to cultivate friendships with people whose mental model of themselves and their friendships with me would require that they treat a loan seriously (even if, in the end, they couldn’t pay it back). With such a friend, whet
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by porcheetoh 4y ago
Money and intention I think. There’s plenty of money, but it must be paired with the intention to use it in such a way. This is what is rare.
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by porcheetoh 4y ago
Not. With ridiculous rationalization: “we fucked up, but if we admit it, the trolls win”.
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by porcheetoh 4y ago
> There's no reason to think he's guilty, apart from blind trust in the police's word. In my experience there’s a very deeply ingrained sense that police are the good guys lingering in average suburban Americans of a certa
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by porcheetoh 4y ago
Businesses fail all the time. Very often because the founders are inexperienced and underestimate just how much knowledge and skill it takes to run something seemingly simple. This is not unusual, it should not “physically hurt” to read. Th