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Especially this first quote:

"People aren’t deliberate enough about choosing what to work on."

Hold up. What is this based on? Is it based on a feeling of the author's inflated sense of worth compared to others? Or is this really some objective and measurable metric?

Is it possible the author doesn't actually know or has taken the effort to deliberate on this statement themselves? Playing devil's advocate with your own ideas is probably the greatest service you can do for yourself but it seems that's not practised here. I can come up with many examples of how people ARE very deliberate in what they work on. Like you said, raising a family, enjoying time outside of work, just straight up trying to survive. These all seem pretty deliberate.

> Is it possible the author doesn't actually know

It’s a very HN mindset to reject articles not backed up by objective facts.

This is an inherently subjective post, pointing out the lack of hard data shouldn’t be an indictment of the author’s thesis.

It's also a Maslow's hierarchy of needs sort of thing.

I'm about 33 and finally I feel secure enough to think about things beyond survival.

This right here.

Depending on how someone’s life goes and the circumstances they were born into they may either start at this point or never get there at all.

The naïveté to different people’s situations is really prevalent here sometimes.

Completely agree, Blind has the same mentality

https://www.teamblind.com/post/UyGsEdyC?cid=24327137

He is projecting himself. Everything he is saying is a reflection of himself

Oof. Been there, done that.

In my opinion, a major facet of maturity is figuring out that all the negative shit you think about other people is often just the things you don't like about yourself projected onto other people.

Everyone generalizes from a sample size of one.

Well, at least I do.

Precisely. He likely had a revelation about himself, and writes about it with the language, "people are mostly xyz." What a joke.

Author might be a bit off in the reason but there's a lot of people not working where they'd like because the job market is weird and at one point you need money.

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