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Agreed, he said repeatedly (I'm paraphrasing) "don't follow me, examine it for yourself."

_Truth is a pathless land_ is an amazingly eye opening speech. I suggest it as a starting point for understanding his position.

Check out the material-ui `next` branch. It uses JSS and is much easier to customize.

Check out the material-ui `next` branch. It isn't released but I'm using it (and publishing my own private package) for a soon to be production application. While not all components are ported, it has enough to use, run the `docs/site` and see for yourself. The next branch seemingly takes all the complaints from the current release and solves them - really a pleasure to use.

That was a (relatively speaking) slow change. Upcoming automation as I see it will displace large numbers of jobs in multiple sectors in a matter of years not decades.

Agreed. But this doesn't mean you won't feel compelled to intervene and add value in difficult situations. I chose to cash out instead of continuing with the heavy burden of risking my net worth every day due to this. How is my old company doing? Fantastic, exactly because I focused on building a company and not a job. This is just to say that these two comments aren't mutually exclusive.

This is almost exactly what I have done. I took enough time off to accept the change, lose the working habit, and shed the rest of that identity. I came to find I love working in tech. Sometimes I work long hours when I'm enjoying the problem solving struggle, sometimes I just take off and go racing. To each his own.

Scale.

Because many bought simultaneously with new Apple releases and have been waiting to see the next major version. In my case our MacBook pros are > 3.5 years old, which is too old for my comfort level; I expect major failures after 3 years that aren't worth even one day of lost productivity.

I disagree, I think it is a human tendency because it is often the path of least resistance (short term, but long term can accumulate and be not worth the alternative).

So while culturally it might have higher numbers in women, the numbers in men are high enough to sell books like "No More Mr. Nice Guy.". Good book by the way.

Honesty is not exclusive of gentleness and kindness.

I appreciate your reference to Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Assuming you have met safety/security (#1), general philosophy of living presently would ask "why measure at all?"

I would pose that "service to others" if reflected upon, is exactly ego. You can feel good being of service to others, and you can feel diminished by not being of service to others. When you lose the good feeling, you want to do more, to reobtain that good feeling.

"I am one who strives to live in service to others" (I am parahrasing) but if this is true, it is more clearly ego a.k.a. identification with form.

> p.s. pleasing people also makes you happy, because you develop better relationships.

I disagree with your causation. By people pleasing you develop relationships that are inauthentic, which creates a fiction of good within your relationships. People pleasing and expecting those "better relationships" to be real is just perpetuating your own fiction.

There are some other foundational things needed for living a full life (which I infer is the author's point).

> "Jack, you shouldn't play Overwatch..."

This is judgement, which implies ego. The indicator here is "shouldn't". Ego isn't an authentic representation of self, it is fiction. If we can become aware of ego and avoid following it's incessant needs, we are closer to ego-lessness which can contribute significantly to happiness.

So in the end, being authentic and transparent without ego, the original statement may be something like:

> "Jack, I don't like to play overwatch, I would rather (do x,y,z)"

Great book for anyone seeking - Eckhardt Tolle - "A new earth" - be warned, skip chapter 1!

Originally bought because of wrist pain, I've had the kinesis advantage for 16 years, I'm on my third one and I've worn out keys on each one from so much use. Luckily they shipped me new switches for free and allowed me to switch the myself (at my request due to timing). Fantastic service and product. I really do wear them out.

With that said, all three exhibited the sticky modifier problem. I'm used to it but it always made me wonder if the internals were going bad.

In March I preordered https://shop.keyboard.io

I'll be very interested to compare, and if it isn't as good or better, I won't hesitate to order the updated kinesis advantage.

> The best metric to choose is good old fashioned profit

I agree that ultimately, the only measure is profit for a company you are building to operate. The only caveat being that in the early stages, it may require more investment, and you don't want to sacrifice good investment to higher profit when it could mean the ultimate decline of the company (and profit). This is why there could be a period of time where the revenue measure is simplest and meaningful.

With regard to at least Amazon, I think they are focused on the long game and profitability. Twitter and others I don't follow, but I would agree that from the outside, many seem not to focus on building sustainable, profitable business without continued funding or expectation of being sold.

I believe Goldratt suggested something like "ask why until the answer is a feeling" which is much in the same vein as the five whys. For anyone wanting to learn tactical approaches to root cause analysis, lookup Goldratt and ”reality tree", profound life/career/wealth changing stuff.

After I unfollowed all the irritations, I too found myself simply irritated with my facebook feed. I started asking myself, "Did this experience make my life better in some way?". After a few uses, I determined quite quickly that my life was indeed not better with it.

I haven't deleted my account, but I did remove it from my phone because it started aggressively notifying me of bogus status updates after it noticed my absence.

After a few days, I asked myself, "Is my life better without it?" Yes, no irritations from ego, politics or ignorance anymore.

Agreed, I did a short bit of research on simulation, and in this case (rotational dynamics) moment of inertia is substituted for mass in the force calculation, and when standing still, that is always near zero. Therefore very little energy should be necessary to maintain it.

33 minutes start to finish, it finally went through.

Palmer's thread on twitter "insanely high load": https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/684772857625231360

Paypal and credit cards are both declined with "Something went wrong", console shows "Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error)"

Watching my ship date go from March to April and now probably May was a bit disheartening.

Still no success.

Very quick on the bundle fix! Unfortunately, "Something went wrong. Please try again." with both credit cards and paypal.

So it isn't just one problem...

Site's up, now declining credit cards? I guess I'll have to paypal it...smooth!

app-bundle-3.15.14.js:50 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'hostname' of undefined

Some great QA went into this release.

http://shop.oculus.com - blank screen...awesome. It has been since the moment the pre-order link showed on oculus.com.

Mercedes-AMG E63S 4matic with 590hp ~$105k does it in 3.5s, and that is very fast. The Tesla is indeed ludicrous.

Cliffhanger! Looking forward to the next installment. These types of posts do a great service to others, I read many before selling my first company. The structure of my deal was largely based on the lessons learned from others with which I read about in the blogs posted on HN.

I also spent a good amount of time on the farm. I sit here, a successful tech entrepreneur that now never has to work again after an exit. I achieved my life goals (at least the ones I set in my twenties). I took time off to break the need to work, then once again I'm on a new adventure starting a new tech company. I really enjoy my daily tech challenges, but how many lifetime memories have I made in my tech career? I'm not so sure, but it doesn't compare to my childhood and college years. This article is a good reminder that we need to connect with life.

LOL. I stopped reading when he said it takes "too much time."

Start with the end in mind.