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Garry Tan: How to level up your friends like billionaires do

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I believe this is the fastest way to become disillusioned with your support group unless you blatantly realize your only reason for friendship is transactional inspiration and a future reference for opportunity beyond socially bonding. I have a couple of mutuals who’re following this kind of thing and at least in my point of view, the rush for ‘things’ over the bond that makes us feel complete is making them pointlessly dismissive towards others, but the problem is they don’t like the outcome of “leveling up your friends” instead of simply just making more friends and acquaintances.

Maybe being a billionaire is not for me. If anything talking to my lazier friends helps me realize just how out of tune I am with my own low level wants. I wish I could just play video games all day and feel okay about it!

I thought so too, but if you watch the video he is saying DON’t BE LIKE THIS. Don’t be a soulless people optimizer.

The video surprisingly turned out less awful than this title makes it appear. The message is not, use people to get ahead.

But I’d imagine more important than your friend group. How are you spending your time. But some good points are made about advancing along with a small group of people with a common passion that have created a little scene.

You can see that with the Silicon Valley tech guys of the 70s, or the film geeks Coppola, Spielberg, Lucas, Milius who had their thing before anyone knew or cared who they were. Or the punk rockers in NYC in the 70s Blondie, Ramones who had their little scene before everyone got famous. There’s lots of examples.

The author of the video is simply reading from a script, as visible by his distracting eye movements.

Why not just publish a blog post so we can skim through it at higher speed?

Is it for the Youtube ad revenue?

I doubt Garry needs the ad revenue (and in the description, he says he's donating 100% to charity). Did you consider that perhaps many people prefer watching a video to reading a blog post?

I'm not sure about many people, but why not publish both? I'm not going to watch it, because I'm listening to a podcast now, but I might read it...

You read blog posts at the same time you are listening to podcasts?

What an odious man with an odious concept.

Why not just write hateful or awful instead of odious?

I'm always curious why people choose uncommon words, particularly when writing online where the audience is diverse.

Audience is diverse therefore one should only write for the lowest vocabulary?

That's a fair point and thanks for raising it. Diverse audience was just one example I had thought of at the time of writing. I agree that language shouldn't necessarily be "dumbed down" but equally, overly complex words can make the message difficult to understand. Written text on the web can be challenging to understand due to lack of tone, sarcasm, etc.

I appreciate the downvotes above as I didn't frame my message clearly, which likely came across as rude. My apologies GP.

I was mostly interested in WHY GP chose those words over others. I appreciate learning new words, as I did with OP, but my understanding is HN and other web forums is an area for chat rather than a novel.

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