I do not think I have met a man who was more successful by his own standards than my Father.
It's the standard I've used for guiding my life and choosing my goals, but I've not seen much written about before.
Follow it, and you too may live to become a mascot for frozen fish.
The most important lessons aren't the ones you say with your words, they are the ones you live out, the example you set for others.
The implicit lesson I learned from my Father is that only two things really matter - one is living a life that will lead to interesting stories.
Now, the beer commercials were a bit over the top, but it is true that he was "The Most Interesting Man in the World"
A good example - in his late 20s he rode his bicycle around Ireland, drawing pictures of castles.
When he ran out of money, those sketches got him a job.
I've probably heard and told the story of how he got that job dozens of times - because it really shaped my model of how to assess risk, how to spot opportunities, and why luck favors the prepared mind.
See, Ireland in the 80s was booming, but not exactly economically.
Now a notebook filled with old ruins from a draftsman without a diploma is not much
But one night, walking the streets of Cork after pubs closed, my Dad noticed a light on in an Architect's office
A π‘ that late means on thing. Probably. They have work
The next day he applied.
A few days later, he was in a pub again, debating whether to spend his last pound on another drink, or on the payphone to find out if he got the job.
He choose to make the call, thinking there was some chance that if he got the job, the bartender might buy him a π» to celebrate
Anyway, he got the job, the guy who hired him was my Mom's brother.
They jump into things quick, but job is not one that is going to last, and America beckons him home.
Fortunately, he was a something of a writer, and was able to tempt her to the US of A
Anyway - I had grand plans to include actual life advice here, but I'm out of iconic images we would put around the house to harass my dad with growing up
and given example he set of waking up at 4am for his 2nd job to provide for us as kids, should probably get to work now.
So Happy Birthday Dad.
Since other point of thread was homage to this scene in Ned Devine, and since it's still so far from done, seems you'll have to live quite a bit longer.
Shoutout to all my exes that were willing to use @RoamResearch to try and resolve our disagreements
Namaste to everyone who ever put in work to try and find out what the hell I was talking bout.
Hopefully the bright side of having hard-mode problem is that solutions will scale
Also much love to everyone in #roamcult who reads my tweets charitably and with assumption of positive intent, and to @EpistemicHope and rationality.org for pioneering work on [[Double Crux]], one of best processes Iβve found for thinking together
βYou work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth.
For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of lifeβs procession, that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.β
If you, or anyone you love, is wanting to transition from a bullshit job into tech - and you do not have ton of engineer friends who will mentor you, and ton of experience in teaching yourself hard material, and years to spend wandering interwebs...