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mircea_popescu: you can't go
through life like
this, astride a horse
that
takes you wherever it pleases,
that you barely even know or ever
talk
to. wtf, it's your fucking head, it's a head not a horse!
mircea_popescu: rather
than being surprised by "random" events one could've seen coming a mile's worth of weeks away, if
they bothered
to look ; and rather
than being surprised by where
the horse decides
to go.
mircea_popescu: so
tehn spend however many 20 minute slices it
takes
to write
these out, write out
the
time commitment you expect, sort
them in order, and make yet another publishing plan!
mircea_popescu: holy shit, it'd have been faster
to learn 100 items
than 144!
mircea_popescu: it's like a kid who, in preference of learning 1 digit multiplication
table, learned a
tree of 12 principal excuses with 12 nodes each.
mircea_popescu: but currently you're much more adept at avoiding
the learning of how
to do
that
than at
the doing it!
mircea_popescu: even 20minute
timeslices can move it along, ~if~ you know how
to manage your
time and your
thought process.
mircea_popescu: this is yet another red herring. it is evidently
true one needs arbitrary long chunks for arbitrary long
tasks, say "to prove m-r i need a weekend alone". but "ffa" IS NOT
this. ffa is eminently aditive.
mircea_popescu: it's not even
true
that asciilifeform 's gear
trove is "worthless". everything has a value.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-04 21:23 mircea_popescu:
there were 4 weeks in february. where are
the 4 items ?
mircea_popescu: it may well be
that
the $250 notional you made ain't worth
the notional value of what you lost.
mircea_popescu: "the cost
to buy
this $160`000 item [which really can be had at $8`000 with some regularity, if one's not in a hurry] for $7`750 is $7`750 in cash + dropping
the ballo on ffa + whatever else it is.
mircea_popescu: and as
to b), you never
to my fucking knowledge said
the "hey honey, ima go see if i can find something
to shoot at in
the forest" part. it's never "hey, i plan
to spend so much dough
to realise
this much unbooked profit on
the basis of
this pricetag and
through
this process"
mircea_popescu: it is still a deffective calculation, in
that it only counts ~part~ of
the cost, and compares
to a ~dubious~ watermark.
mircea_popescu: the cost
to own,
the cost
to use,
these fucking figure into
the
total cost. what good is it you got something 50 or 500 or 5000 bucks cheaper
than "the average" if
the average wasn't even correctly calculated and as a bonus you lose your horses die in
the fire started by
the wife's funeral candles ?!
mircea_popescu: the man who drives 10 miles out of his way
to buy a
tank of gas a cent cheaper does
the exact fucking
thing, "oh, it was cheaper gas". no it fucking wasn't.
mircea_popescu: but you never bother
to calculate
the costs of opportunity! neither in
time, nor in actual resources, nor in anything else!
mircea_popescu: as
to a) : 1. you see an item for sale, for price X. 2. you don't even bother
to calculate
the expected-average-X, i suspect, but merely "intuit" it, without even a full second's
thought. 3. you calculate X-imagined-avg-X
thus obtaining a delta, which
then motivates you
to purchase, and in
the process ALSO commits you.
mircea_popescu: the issue here is
that a) you don't correctly account for costs, and
that b) you don't correctly communicate.
mircea_popescu: the problem here isn't whether m-r is proven or not proven,
to standard x or
to standard y, now or later.
BingoBoingo: ^ Marketing roughly in
the same league as a razor company
telling
their customers
they need
to be more feminine men
mircea_popescu: it's neither artistic nor geniusy nor liberty-ish nor anything else,
to not pay rent on fucking
time.
mircea_popescu: nobody is asking you
to do impossible, or even difficult
things.
the problem's not
the
things.
the problem's
that you have developed, and evidently
through insistent practice ensconced, a very self-defeating style of working.
mircea_popescu: then you can say "hey folks, we're done with
the ffa
that i know how
to do, item is shelved for now, will pick it up if i wise up"
mircea_popescu: by leaving it for
the end, where all
the "i dunno how
to do
this yet" go.
mircea_popescu: this is your problem here, see. like any mental problem, it has its articulations.
to you i have no doubt
this nonsense makes sense, "i can't promise one a week, i got a job".
mircea_popescu: are you aware, you had
THIS EXACT PROBLEM a year ago
to
the week ?
mircea_popescu: as you stand right now, you're in a much worse position
than nicoleci. she's a smart girl
that got cheated out of an education, and consequently catching up. you're a smart boy
that ~refuses~ education, and consequently spinning in place, in 2019 same problems as 2018.
mircea_popescu: again... did
that make some sort of sense as an answer in your head,
that was lost on its way
to my head ? because i don't see it
mircea_popescu: it never was your convincing me of
the alt-wisdom of stupidity.
mircea_popescu: this is no waqy
to live.
the whole fucking POINT of
the kindergarten was
that you learn how
to not be stupid in
the way you're stupid.
mircea_popescu: what you do is what every other similar idiot did since
the invention of empire : keep balooning your debts, "yes i'm late with instalment 1 but instalment 2 will be 3x as big! [and also, of course, late]"
mircea_popescu: you missed FOUR
targets in february alone, and it's march 4th.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you are absolutely NOT on fucking
target, quit deluding yourself.
mircea_popescu: whether
they came back with shot bear or shot wounds, is not yet relevant.
mircea_popescu: there's no need
to examine
their bags
to distinguish
them.
mircea_popescu: looky here :
the man who
tells his wife "ima go see if i can find something
to shoot at in
the forest, we're fucking starving here" and
the man who just disappears into
the forest one day are readily distinguishable.
mircea_popescu: now how do you expect me
to explain
to your shareholders
that "you know what ?
the reason you can't predict in january what you'll read early march is
that [???]" ?
mircea_popescu: there's a reason management exists, as a profession.
that reason is in full display above : left
to
their own devices, people like you fuck
themselves.
mircea_popescu: now you're in
the position where you complain "no cash for pizarro" and "no
time for ffa".
mircea_popescu: but
this entire "i work job!!!"
thing's also a red herring. looky how your life flows : 1. your company needs some cash on a regular, predictable, and known in advance basis. 2. for convenience's sake i undertake a quarters' worth or so of
this. 3. you
turn around and buy, exactly like
the people of walmart, a piece of hardware. on fucking impulse,
there was ~no need for it~ and further, ~no
time
to use it~. but you wanted
th
mircea_popescu: empire does not in any factual sense exist. man who works 70% of
the
time for idiots is ===
the remaining 30% of
that man.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: wake up any day, and proceed
to set
to work on whichever of
these seems
that morning
to be
the most promising.
then you go
to sleep.
mircea_popescu: basically, i
think i can authoritatively say, on
the basis of having been
trying
to manage your efforts in
the past however many years nsa existed, your approach
to work is as follows : 1.
there's an indistinct and unspecified ball of
things you deduced you want on
the basis of
them being more or less connected
to a core of goodness which, not necessarily very examinedly, seems
to yield
them as first degree relations. 2. you
mircea_popescu: when you're involved
though, no such prediction can be made -- for
the
transparent enough by now reason
that any random item catching your indisciplined fancy is equiprobable.
mircea_popescu: in a functional system, one can ~predict~
the content of february's report on
the basis of january's report.
mircea_popescu: at issue is no kind of objective constraint. at issue is your very infantile approach
to work, which could be best summarized as "oh! shiny!".
mircea_popescu: b) you published a raft of "x-ray kindergarten" something or
the other.
mircea_popescu: did
that make some sort of sense as an answer in your head,
that was lost on its way
to my head ? because i don't see it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so what am i putting in
this month's report, " alf was gonna do ffa but went away
to play with xrays instead" ?
mircea_popescu: gotta love
these morons, "here's a penguin, now install windows". empire of visual africanisms.
trinque: asciilifeform: who is
this hilarious lisp
troll and why is he not here?