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  1. hellolin

    How $40k/year is NOTHING, you need a hustle!

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    I don't get how people making less than 60k a year live in Southern California, I make just that and my life is JUST comfortable enough for me to log on this forum and read MJ's book, thinking about my next move. But to get here I had to pay a lot prices, even though I have no debt to speak of...
  2. hellolin

    Top 5 Lessons This Fun Book About Economy Will Teach You About Entrepreneurship

    BOOKS 
    There are really two main ingredients that needs to be set right in a true free market economy: incentives and productivity. Understanding how those two works and interacts with each other, you get 90% of how a free market economy works.
  3. hellolin

    The Epitome of Entitlement

    Revolution of high expectations, just like Tocqueville predicted, the question is, can everyone have the expectation of living like a rich guy without actually paying the process of being one eventually?
  4. hellolin

    The [SCRIPTED] Vault (Dogmatic Social Engineering)

    NOTABLE! 
    Oh, don't you worry about California, 22% of the state economy is propped up by the housing industry, with its sky high cost of living. They can do this because they can always import more immigrants, I being one of them :) As long as rich, striving immigrants alone with their hard working lower...
  5. hellolin

    The [SCRIPTED] Vault (Dogmatic Social Engineering)

    NOTABLE! 
    I will just leave this here, too much to actually post here, but there are daily updates: For those who did everything our parents told us to do... now what? • r/lostgeneration I live this thread, research show that people don't actually learn from their own mistakes, due to ego, but a bit...
  6. hellolin

    What book are you reading? Right now. Post up!

    NOTABLE! HOT! BOOKS CHAT 
    People are never equal, the quest of making everyone equal, in both physical terms or mental terms, have cause catastrophes after catastrophes., however.
  7. hellolin

    Trump Tax Plan = Big Tax Cut for Fastlaners

    TAXES | REGS 
    I totally agree with what you said, people who think this will last forever lives on another planet. There are always a group of people in society that needs to be taken care of by the others no matter what, we can only temporarily stop taking care of them, but ignore them for too long, they...
  8. hellolin

    Thank You MJ DeMarco, Commandment of Time

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Freedom also absolute frightens the vast majority of people out there, that's the real problem.
  9. hellolin

    Most beneficial college classes for your fastlane journey.

    EXECUTION 
    To me, it was actually an ethics class. The professes who taught the class was great, she listed many different ethical theories, including Ayn Rand's ethical egoism and objectivism, also many other left or right leaning ethical theories. What she made me do was to write papers discuss each one...
  10. hellolin

    Entitlement

    MINDSET 
    Read the book "The power of broke" by Daymond John, one of the sharks on the shark tank show, he will teach you what is an "affordable next step" is.
  11. hellolin

    STAPLES: The Books you CONTINUE to Re-Read

    BOOKS 
    Amy Chua " The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America" https://www.amazon.com/dp/1594205469/?tag=tff-amazonparser-20
  12. hellolin

    STAPLES: The Books you CONTINUE to Re-Read

    BOOKS 
    Zero to one by Peter Thiel. I read this book right after I graduated college with an IT degree, after interning in a Dotcom for a year and half. Thought I have seen everything and know how the business operates, then I read this book. It's like someone shatters everything you have known then...
  13. hellolin

    College for a job vs. college for learning?

    I agree to most of this here, college in the US was, and always is, the biggest sorting machine available to the elites and it ensures that people who can pass it have that certain qualification that so they can enter professional life, thus separating them from the rest who can't.
  14. hellolin

    College for a job vs. college for learning?

    You need to be careful here. I had the same experience as you, since you will have free money from Uncle Sam for college, you might as well use it. But choosing the wrong school or wrong major can actually put you back and make you dumber nowadays. Do some research, at least get into a major...
  15. hellolin

    Sam Ovens, Legit?

    GURUS 
    Another one who tries to sell everyone the event, not the process. So if you have read MJ's book, you should already know what it is. Nothing new here then.
  16. hellolin

    Have you talked to your friends about TMF?

    HOT! PEOPLE 
    Told one of my best friends about it, now I have second thoughts about telling this book to others, so I won't look like I am crazy next time again. The majority of people, even the really smart ones that had overcame a lot of their life to get to where they are, are not looking to get out of...
  17. hellolin

    Reddit is Full of Slowlaners

    SLOWLANE RANT 
    MJ the problem is that there are almost no successful tech companies in the world nowadays that doesn't do that. The entire world is shifting that way and they are just responding to the consumers. The ones that do not tends to hide in the shadows because they don't want to piss off the majority...
  18. hellolin

    Ever wonder how people end up in dead end jobs at 40?

    GOLD! 
    The riskiest position is to work yourself to a position of no risk.
  19. hellolin

    Reddit is Full of Slowlaners

    SLOWLANE RANT 
    This is what a fully functional market economy looks like, people are eager to start their own business to solve problems of others, which drives employment and innovation, which spurs human achievement on a much bigger level, which actually creates surplus wealth that can be used to support the...
  20. hellolin

    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Again you might find a thousand more people that can code, but software development is so much more than code, the communication between team and between team and PM and the customer is so much more.
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