I am rich and have no idea what to do with my life
I am rich and have no idea what to do with my lifeLife has been a haze this last year. After selling my company, I find myself in the totally un-relatable position of never having to work again. Everything feels like a side quest, but not in an inspiring way. I don’t have the same base desires dri...
Hasnain says:
Honestly, there was some useful stuff to ponder after reading this, since I don't think the problems are necessarily limited to super rich people. The goals and meaning of life are issues that hit us all.
Edit to clarify: this made *me* ponder things given I was already thinking about life and everything else going on and what I want to do in my life.
So that takeaway of “money isn’t everything and an ulterior motivation in life is needed” was definitely an apt reminder, regardless of which form it was delivered in.
This specific guy’s midlife crisis is a bit too out of touch - from calling people NPCs to only being in a relationship as long as it benefited him, to, uh, whatever that was with DOGE, and I hope it goes without saying that I hope to never find myself in that situation.
"I know. This is a completely zeroth-world position to be in. The point of this post isn’t to brag or gain sympathy. To be honest, I don’t exactly know what the point of this post is. I tried to manufacture one, but I just felt like a phony. Then I recognized the irony of creating purpose out of a blog post when I don’t currently have much conviction or purpose in life."
Posted on 2025-01-03T06:48:08+0000
How Widening Israel’s War Saved Benjamin Netanyahu
The Prime Minister’s domestic popularity has rebounded to pre-October 7th levels, despite his refusal to prioritize a hostage deal in Gaza.
Hasnain says:
"There’s an expansionist tendency right now. You would think that this is the time that Israel could conclude that it would expand, it could occupy and it could annex with no serious international repercussions. All of this is strange because Israel is currently facing more international repercussions or threats of international repercussions than ever before in its history, and yet those repercussions haven’t materialized."
Posted on 2025-01-03T05:57:12+0000
A Mortuary Tangled in the Macabre : In a scandal that has rocked the state's funeral industry, three members of an All-American family face trial in Pasadena in a case that promises to tell a ghoulish : tale of organ theft and--perhaps--homicide.
Assistant Hesperia Fire Chief Will Wentworth listened incredulously as a caller complained that the noxious black smoke pouring from a nondescript building in the desert carried the sickeningly sweet smell of burning human flesh.
Hasnain says:
This is from 1988. What in the world..
(Thank you Twitter for the olfactory ethics discourse that lead me to this)
“Assistant Hesperia Fire Chief Will Wentworth listened incredulously as a caller complained that the noxious black smoke pouring from a nondescript building in the desert carried the sickeningly sweet smell of burning human flesh.
“I don’t think so, it’s a ceramics shop,” Wentworth replied.
“Don’t tell me they’re not burning bodies. I was at the ovens at Auschwitz,” the man said chillingly, Wentworth recalled.”
Posted on 2025-01-02T20:43:36+0000