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Recent content by Bouncing Soul

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    If someone offered you a CEO job for millions, would you take it?

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    I think the thought experiment is a good one, but I have some close personal experience with execs and athletes and entrepreneurship and I think the individual personalities and situations and resultant individual agency of the high performers has more impact than is being discussed here...
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    When I grow up, I want to sell deodorant, razors, and heating pads.

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    This is a tricky one for me. I am an engineer and love working on the highest tech. If you want to be the owner and bootstrap though, it seems FAR better to choose something less sexy or “small tech” (if it’s tech at all) for financial returns.
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    The Ukraine War, implications, outcome?

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    Let’s not overstate the importance of the currency of a kleptocracy run by an autocrat based on pumping some oil and stolen IP. Russia’s economy is smaller than that of Texas, of South Korea etc. And structurally, it can’t catch up. In exchange for their nukes, the United States and Russia...
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    The Ukraine War, implications, outcome?

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    The reality of the Russian failure to quickly install a puppet government in Kyiv, their defeats and withdrawal and now attacks by Ukrainians in Russia also explains this…they thought this was just another routine puppet install like Belarus. I don’t see why anyone is giving credit to this...
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    Entering a Dying Market? (Photography)

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    I’ll make an important distinction the snobs tend to miss, never have so many great cameras been sold. My iPhone 13 can take WAY better photos than great digital cameras did 20yrs ago. Why does this matter? About 23yrs ago a guy, who later became a friend after I worked on a licensing deal...
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    Why do successful people hide?

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    Some people are flashy, some are not. Sorry, it’s just that simple.
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    The Ukraine War, implications, outcome?

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    The United States is a warlike country with a strong undercurrent of violence about it. Our actions around our military spending and use should make this abundantly clear. There are undoubtedly US “advisors” there now (most likely not pulling the triggers), and we’ve publicly talked about...
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    The Ukraine War, implications, outcome?

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    The US is basically following our commitments set forth in the Budapest Memorandum signed when the Ukrainians gave up their huge inventory of Soviet nukes. Russia violated the agreement by 1) invading Ukraine and 2) threatening nuclear war. The US went to the UN council and worked out...
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    The Ukraine War, implications, outcome?

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    Oh Xeon you are precious. The Russian army has sucked so badly that folks in the west are having a hard time understanding it. We all thought they were much better than this. Stronger neighbors, like the Poles, are getting nastier to Russia, and Ukraine is now much closer to the west (and...
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    2024 State Tax Rankings... Time for You to Move?

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    Moving from a high to a low tax state was enough of a take home change to pay for the mortgage (and prop tax!). I don’t understand how in 2022 states don’t realize they are increasingly going to have to compete for businesses and workers.
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    The Ukraine War, implications, outcome?

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    Yes. I thought it was well done. Centralized decision making is great and efficient, until it isn’t.
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    The Ukraine War, implications, outcome?

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    My. Word. So much nonsense and propaganda. Where are we today? Russia invaded. They very clearly did not meet their original battle plans and objectives. If the Ukrainians had the will to fight, the Russians were always going to have a big problem. They are attacking a near peer on their...
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    Are 20-40 Years Old More Lonely Than Ever?

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    Social media is a double edged sword, especially for introverts. An extrovert is not going to feel fulfilled tweeting, they’ll go find people to connect with, because they’re comfortable doing it. My son recently explained to me that in his grade school class there are cliques based on which...
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    The Metaverse

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    My suggestion is don’t get distracted by the Metaverse (unless you want to be a part of building it) and just focus on NFTs. The only practical application of NFTs I’ve been a part of was around art.
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Yes, meet needs in better ways. Communities which are more walkable and bikable are far more pleasant to live in and enhance the health of their citizens. Walking and riding bikes means more interactions with your neighbors which is a positive for community building. Most high end...
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