No one is this thread is complaining about themselves working at Apple because they don't believe in the company's treatment of their employees and their general business practices. They all already work somewhere else because of this.
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- easily invest in the whole market through index ETFs
- no need to do the research and choose which stocks or funds to buy
- automatic deposit set up to seamlessly transfer money every month from my checking into my betterment account and have every dollar invested (no need to worry about shares)
- automatic rebalancing
- no minimum balances/deposits, no holding periods, money is easily accessible and can be withdrawn at any time without penalties
(Disclosure: I work here)
Here's an episode of Risk Takers on Bloomberg for Elon Musk: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/73460184/
Great episode as well.
Also, you can learn a lot from you failures.
So while you may lose out on time and money, you gain other things too. Depends on if that trade-off is worth it.
I think with anything, you can somehow relate it to making an impact in the world. I could say working at a consulting company who's on a project for a car manufacturer, on a project that improves the data quality of owners of cars - i'm making an impact because with better data, people are getting the right information / advertisments for cars that are right for them, thus improving their lives by helping them choose the right car. Obviously, this employee is many layers away, but he could still say that he is still making an impact in some super small way.
I think it really is just up to the individual to see what they believe is enough of an impact for them personally.
If you no longer care about someone's updates or anything that's going on in their life, you can remove them as a friend. I know tons of people who have removed people from their friends lists. Or if someone plays too many games and you dont like seeing that update on your feed, mute those types of posts or posts from that user.
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* Fitocracy (http://www.fitocracy.com) - personal fitness and weight lifting logs, also integrates with other apps like RunKeeper
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* Quora
* Google Reader
* Google Music
* Gmail
* Dropbox
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that feels the way I do about the article. It seems too much preaching and there's a sense of elitism in the post. It seems hypocritical that the author left Facebook (where by some standards he was doing great things and making a huge impact), to co-found his startup, Asana. Like others in the comments here, I agree that if this message came from someone else, doing something different (i.e. someone doing research in curing cancer) it would mean a lot more. Nothing wrong with Asana, and I think it's a good product, but it's not doing great things in the world and changing it amazingly for the better.