Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

[MJ DeMarco]

LOVE THAT! Thanks man!

You'll love the mag, second page is a private jet advertisement. It's tends to be an option traders magazine, but options trading tends to be only about 10% of the magazine.

 

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[Kak]

You'll love the mag, second page is a private jet advertisement. It's tends to be an option traders magazine, but options trading tends to be only about 10% of the magazine.

I just subscribed. The content is very entertaining.

 

[Nikhil09]

Random thought: There is no human who knows what any god does anything.
the unknown is unknown.

There can be billions of gods, and still no reason to assume any of they have anything to do with putting us anywhere.

 

[Mono1001]

Hi there...am new here.. i read tmf ..an eye opener book..thank you

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

Bro-marketers exposed...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1296802550201626625

View: https://twitter.com/DelRey/status/1296802550201626625

 

[sparechange]

Dam pre 2000's music is some good stuff, can't find any good stuff that's recent anymore....

Am I old?

 

[Kid]

Dam pre 2000's music is some good stuff, can't find any good stuff that's recent anymore....

Am I old?

A bit of science, but before you open the spoiler below, mind that author of video changed thumbnail to one that touches the line of NSFW. Probably for clicks... Anyway, content is solid just don't keep that thumbnail opened when boss comes in

Spoiler

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVME_l4IwII

 

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[Raoul Duke]

I wonder if it'll show its youtube revenue?

 

[sparechange]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXR1olg_I0w

''Training towards a private helicopter license is widely available at a cost of $14,000 - $35,000 CDN.''

I know where my FU pile is going

 

[socaldude]

I know where my FU pile is going

Haha I’ve always wanted to get into aircraft as well but it’s for rich folk for sure. Tons of training, costs and maintenance.

I’ve known people who live in private house communities where they live in a private airport. They have it all set up like a private corporation.

Already learned my lesson on toys. Even if you pay cash for a cool car it’s money flushed down the toiled in depreciation and maintenance. Not to mention the money I could have made if I wouldn’t have spent it. Dumb.

 

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[sparechange]

I'll never stop being amazed at how some of the dumbest products out there become so successful. They do have some great copy writing though, brilliant stuff.

 

[Kevin88660]

I like this guy

petty minded vengeance...

 

[Andy Black]

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I'll never stop being amazed at how some of the dumbest products out there become so successful. They do have some great copy writing though, brilliant stuff.

Oh wow. I was wondering when someone would bring out a see through mask. It makes perfect sense. People currently can’t see other people smile, and they can’t see people’s lips move when they talk. I must admit I find myself asking people to repeat themselves all the time. I’d buy one just from the image. Sales people and carers would likely benefit from them. Also the emergency services and teachers.

 

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[MTF]

I'll never stop being amazed at how some of the dumbest products out there become so successful. They do have some great copy writing though, brilliant stuff.

As much as I hate masks, this actually solves a real problem.

Face masks and communication difficulties for deaf people | Letters

Letters: The pandemic is making everyday communication harder for those with hearing loss, writes Susan Daniels, Tricia Mitchell says a new hand gesture might help, and Mark Earls describes his experience as someone with autism

www.theguardian.com

This, plus what Andy said:

People currently can’t see other people smile, and they can’t see people’s lips move when they talk. I must admit I find myself asking people to repeat themselves all the time.

 

[Mutant]

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I'll never stop being amazed at how some of the dumbest products out there become so successful. They do have some great copy writing though, brilliant stuff.

Oh wow. I was wondering when someone would bring out a see through mask. It makes perfect sense. People currently can’t see other people smile, and they can’t see people’s lips move when they talk. I must admit I find myself asking people to repeat themselves all the time. I’d buy one just from the image. Sales people and carers would likely benefit from them. Also the emergency services and teachers.

As much as I hate masks, this actually solves a real problem.

Face masks and communication difficulties for deaf people | Letters

Letters: The pandemic is making everyday communication harder for those with hearing loss, writes Susan Daniels, Tricia Mitchell says a new hand gesture might help, and Mark Earls describes his experience as someone with autism

www.theguardian.com

This, plus what Andy said:

My immediate thought process is:

That'll fog up.
Maybe they've come up with some kind of ventilation system so it doesn't?
Actually wouldn't that defeat some of the point?

I was unusually wearing glasses yesterday when I went to the supermarket, popped my mask on when I got there & was immediately reminded of just one of the millions of reasons I prefer contact lenses.
Even though they were outside of my mask they were fogging up like crazy. I was glad for the coverage of the mask so people couldn't see all the ways I was attempting to distort my mouth & direct my breath elsewhere.

 

[sparechange]

As much as I hate masks, this actually solves a real problem.

Face masks and communication difficulties for deaf people | Letters

Letters: The pandemic is making everyday communication harder for those with hearing loss, writes Susan Daniels, Tricia Mitchell says a new hand gesture might help, and Mark Earls describes his experience as someone with autism

www.theguardian.com

This, plus what Andy said:

I may be in the wrong business.....




I'm amazed people would spend $544 on this. I think I'll try charging an insane price for my own product and see if it works, already feel a bit iffy charging almost double the current average price, although I do have a few value skews..

 

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[MTF]

I'm amazed people would spend $544 on this. I think I'll try charging an insane price for my own product and see if it works, already feel a bit iffy charging almost double the current average price, although I do have a few value skews..

Wow, that's ridiculous. I have a feeling that many people will buy it as a luxury product and/or virtue signaling. "I am a 'responsible' citizen AND am rich as hell."

Meanwhile, I refuse to spend any money on a mask. I just use an old keffiyeh (and look like a terrorist LOL).

 

[Andy Black]

I may be in the wrong business.....


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I'm amazed people would spend $544 on this. I think I'll try charging an insane price for my own product and see if it works, already feel a bit iffy charging almost double the current average price, although I do have a few value skews..

Ah. I didn’t see the price. I’ll stick to my disposable surgical masks.

 

[Kid]

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I'll never stop being amazed at how some of the dumbest products out there become so successful. They do have some great copy writing though, brilliant stuff.

Since its Italian and what not, can't you make such "not a mask" for $5 and sell for $10?

 

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[socaldude]

Ever heard of the "dark triad" personality types in psychology?

Dark triad - Wikipedia

These are the types of people you should never marry or do business with.

They tend to be common in certain professions including...business.

I would never hire or partner with anybody that shows signs of these personalities.

I'm no misanthrope but im also not a punching bag for peoples bs.

Never been a fan of the hardcore ruthless tit for tat type of business personality either.

Be good and be nice.

 

[sparechange]

Ever heard of the "dark triad" personality types in psychology?

Dark triad - Wikipedia

These are the types of people you should never marry or do business with.

They tend to be common in certain professions including...business.

I would never hire or partner with anybody that shows signs of these personalities.

I'm no misanthrope but im also not a punching bag for peoples bs.

Never been a fan of the hardcore ruthless tit for tat type of business personality either.

Be good and be nice.

lol

 

[socaldude]

So I’m reading the 1913 federal reserve act because I’m tired of not knowing how our economy works. It’s almost as if no one wants you to know.

And as I was reading it, the act itself admits it’s a private corporation. Then I realized the previous 7 private central banks of the US had a charter that expired. So does the FED have an expiration date? Nope.

I found it right here:
12 U.S. Code § 341 - General enumeration of powers

“ To have succession after February 25, 1927, until dissolved by Act of Congress or until forfeiture of franchise for violation of law.”

What a coincidence, an amended clause right before the Great Depression. WTF?

It has a permanent charter until congress tells them to scram or they break the law. The fed has three goals: maximize employment, stable prices and moderate long term interest rates. It has failed to live up to the promise.

Power to print money in perpetuity. What’s the net present value of that? Wow.

 

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[Kak]

I don't know about you guys but I am a little worried about Covid20 PRO. I hear that the only way to slow the spread is democide this time.

 

[Sander]

A way to avoid spread in Denmark is to remove the tables in the schools. Why? No idea.

 

[Kak]

So I’m reading the 1913 federal reserve act because I’m tired of not knowing how our economy works. It’s almost as if no one wants you to know.

And as I was reading it, the act itself admits it’s a private corporation. Then I realized the previous 7 private central banks of the US had a charter that expired. So does the FED have an expiration date? Nope.

I found it right here:
12 U.S. Code § 341 - General enumeration of powers

“ To have succession after February 25, 1927, until dissolved by Act of Congress or until forfeiture of franchise for violation of law.”

What a coincidence, an amended clause right before the Great Depression. WTF?

It has a permanent charter until congress tells them to scram or they break the law. The fed has three goals: maximize employment, stable prices and moderate long term interest rates. It has failed to live up to the promise.

Power to print money in perpetuity. What’s the net present value of that? Wow.

If you want some real fun look up malinvestment and the likelihood of a boom and bust business cycle without government creating bubbles.

Austrian school talks a lot about malinvestment.

It also never fails, they "fix" the problem with more government after blaming capitalism.

 

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[WillHurtDontCare]

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lol

That's an interesting way to describe bored high school and college nerds.

 

[Deleted78083]

My business partner is coding a website based on an idea I had. He takes care of everything technical, and I take care of the rest. As we speak, there is not much to do for me until he finishes coding the minimum viable product. When it's done, we'll look for funding.

In the meantime, I'm flying to Budapest next Tuesday, officially for holidays, but I'm not intending on using my return ticket. I think I'll stay there until Christmas instead, doing volunteering work to get a roof over my head while developing my hobby websites and learning data science in my free time.

Hopefully by Christmas, we'll be able to start looking for funding.

I have no idea wtf I'm doing.

My high school friends have all been working for 4 years in good high-paying corporate jobs, some of them are getting married, others bought houses, and I'm just there learning how to make a directory website with wordpress, jumping from one student room to the next with the equivalent of 6 months of food on my bank account (if I don't pay any rent) and literally no plan whatsoever about how I could make money otherwise. Everything I own is in my brother's basement.

As I am (finally) exiting university, life is getting serious and I must take responsibilities for myself. That might just be the scariest thing I have ever done, and I have no idea if I'm up to the task or not. I've lived my whole life within the structure of normalcy, following what had been laid down for me and now that I find myself seriously deviating from the standard curve in a world free from rules, safety nets and practical "how-to" notices, stress, doubt and self-inflicted social pressure are assaulting my confidence and determination. I guess it's the desert of desertion. And to think it's only the beginning.

 

[OneLife]

So I made it a goal of mine to buy a specific car for $35k in November, considering I'm making pretty decent money with my soul sucking 9-5. (Working there to fund my ecom dream)

While I was re-reading Unscripted , I was thinking to myself - why the F*ck would I do such thing?

The only reason I wanted that car, was mostly because it would show to other people that I "made it somewhere". I wanted to be perceived as successful by people that have nothing to do with my life. (Mind you, I would need to finance the car for at-least 2-3 years to be able to afford it)

So I'm gonna buy a car for $4k, cash. If I can't afford to buy something at-least 2-3x, I'm not gonna buy it.

Then if I'll ever feel self-conscious driving my "cheap mazda", I'll remember all of those scripted people financing their cars for years just to be perceived as something they're really not, and invest my money wisely.

 

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[Daniel A]

It's a shame that Felix Dennis wasn't able to express his personality into his book "How to Get Rich" in audio format. Still, at least it'll be an audiobook narrated by someone else on September 8, 2020.

Audible LINK: How to Get Rich

 

[ZF Lee]

Today, I truly underestimated how f*cked up college kids in business school are.

How so?

Enter my Integrative Business Practices unit in my current semester.

It’s a fantastic unit, where you can research markets and channels to create products and strategy with the canvas model and stuff.

The lecturer also gives lots of feedback and pokes lots of holes in your strategy straight-faced.

But what sucks?

The students I am paired up with for group assignments.

They aren’t the worst sort who ghost themselves or never contribute- but they just mostly pulled general crap from the textbook and they didn’t look at forums, markets, competitors and stuff to make the pitch presentation decent.

I was assigned to do an empathy map section for our latest presentation-and I nailed it by review-and-Reddit mining the hell out of the sleep/wake-up market, since our product was a sleep/wake up lamp.

Found out what books the target market would read (e.g habit books like Miracle Morning)

Their fears (e.g fear of landing a shitty job because of waking up late)

Their gains (e.g so happy to go to sleep or wake-up without phone-binging)

Since I was gonna have a trip for the weekend(it was last week), I sent in my work early to the group.

And that was the ONLY work that was done by us overall...across the 3-4 days before the presentation (today)

needless to say, they did last minute work all of yesterday...and let’s say my lecturer had plenty of feedback for us after our presentation.

Me thinks that could have been mitigated if we met even one time for lecturer consultations, but I was SICK and TIRED of ‘playing hero’ and shepherding around. I let someone else be the group leader, and she doesn’t have the iron-grip of Lee Kuan Yew, for some reasons.

I listened to the other presentations of the other groups, and I got the same

I realised that:

-most business school students had NO business starting a business, if they never did their research

-Group assignments DO NOT simulate the workplace, no matter how much the profs tell you they do.

I can’t fire, negotiate, filter as fast and furious as I do with freelancing.

we have anti-loafing measures like meeting minutes and peer reviews, but how much can they work? And the issue is not lazy kids, but simply because the folks taking the unit are WEAK.

By weak, I mean folks who only ‘do work’ and not bring new, powerful things to the table.


I’m not going to take over as group leader...I’ll let the current one continue as long the others don’t complain. I’ll just suggest ideas off and on, but I’ll just fill in whatever I’m asked to do.

Maybe it might make things worse, but in my last few semesters,over-delivering on my college work doesn’t even earn me extra money or a client testimonial.

This greatly enrages me because I’ve done similar business projects last semester (on my own) and in a social enterprise unit in college...with more solid-headed folks-to good results.

It also makes me real angry, seeing how business school kids fail-epic by starting off any work without even looking what their market thinks.

Not even a 3-5 min Reddit search!

That’s F*cking wrong, and your product is dead before it’s even born.

Looking at folks discuss fluff in their presentations is like seeing Noah’s flood in action-destruction and dismay.


Try that stupid shit as a copywriter in a John Carlton-era agency, and you’ll end up jobless and half-naked under a bridge in a few days.

If this is what I can expect from my current generation of business school students, I can’t blame employers for treating interns like cheap-chess pieces.


TLDR: Just F*ck group assignments and ignorant, ‘I’ll do the bare minimum’ business school kids who have poor time management skills and poor initiative to research (despite X hours of Business Analytics unit time)

This is one reason why I don’t want to enter the workforce and get a job. I don’t want to work with idiots like them.

All the more reason to freelance or do my own business or catch my own meat.