John Pugliano runs a very interesting website geared toward getting people independently wealthy. His views on investment are deeply rooted in reason and, I suspect, philosophy. He seems to be a moderate libertarian.
"Overcome your natural tendency to fear new things."
"The entrenched powers will always lose. It happens every time."
"Embrace innovation."
He is a sort of optimistic fatalist. We embrace change or change stomps us. It's like the dog tied to the cart. Run along with it or let it drag you, but that's reality. And for all the destruction of capitalism we live in unprecedented luxury.
He views investment as "wealthsteading." He sees it as a way to carve out a self-sustaining plot of money (rather than land, like the original homesteaders) and thereby win freedom to choose one's way of life.
Worth a look.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Monday, February 15, 2016
The Stoic And Online Etiquette
I was on a certain website recently and decided to troll members of the opposition. I took their opinion and fed it back to them in its most extreme incarnation. I presented myself as a political commisar enforcing an absurdity. I was effective. I silenced people. I stayed up until 2 a.m.
That's a problem.
Tonight I was playing a simulation (it simulates something I do in real life). There was a competition involved. There are people competing in it who have been competing every night for ten years. They are very impressed with themselves and they insulted me. I responded in kind. Effectively. More effectively than them. Edit: No I didn't. I ignored them, got angry and tossed out an effective one-liner. They left me alone after that. It was ONE LINE. I'm aggrandizing myself here. It was satisfying.
Then it wasn't.
What kind of Stoic am I if I spend my time in the dirt with everybody else? Shouldn't I pull myself out of the dirt, and then turn around and help my brothers and sisters out of the dirt?
I need to work this out. Time for a new project.
That's a problem.
Tonight I was playing a simulation (it simulates something I do in real life). There was a competition involved. There are people competing in it who have been competing every night for ten years. They are very impressed with themselves and they insulted me. I responded in kind. Effectively. More effectively than them. Edit: No I didn't. I ignored them, got angry and tossed out an effective one-liner. They left me alone after that. It was ONE LINE. I'm aggrandizing myself here. It was satisfying.
Then it wasn't.
What kind of Stoic am I if I spend my time in the dirt with everybody else? Shouldn't I pull myself out of the dirt, and then turn around and help my brothers and sisters out of the dirt?
I need to work this out. Time for a new project.
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Success implies comparing and I don’t compare my life to other people’s lives. They don’t concern me.
-From Sprezzaturian by way of Mike Cernovich at Danger and Play
If you look into either of the blogs I've linked to you will no doubt find fertile ground for disagreement. Still, as Seneca says, all good ideas are public property. I like this idea very much.
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