tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3718956085911858962.post4214010567275646818..comments2023-12-27T14:48:02.113+05:30Comments on Electric Sheep Blog: Everyone is running a business, including you.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938300811286150164noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3718956085911858962.post-39795508050593621962012-06-19T15:22:15.673+05:302012-06-19T15:22:15.673+05:30@Apoorv - I think what's most important in the...@Apoorv - I think what's most important in the long run is going after your dreams in a sustainable manner, irrespective of whether you eventually achieve them. Sustainable is the key word here. You can't do anything if you don't have enough money or your pursuit adversely affects your family (as two examples).<br /><br />Anyone would be lucky to succeed in under five years when chasing big goals. Realistically, most non-trivial ideas take at least 20 years to execute on, often longer. Even more realistically, big plans need big money and lots of execution, maybe you need to build stepping stones that get you what you need before you go after the real deal. I think in this respect, people like Bill Gates, Mark Shuttleworth, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel make excellent examples.<br /><br />Otherwise, it's TANSTAAFL - if your dreams need you to push hard, then you push hard. Just don't compromise your quality of life - for now, you just have one lifetime, and there's no point spending it dissatisfied.<br /><br />@Suman - Networks do help, but you can find out quickly enough just by asking friends. You can also check websites like glassdoor.com. <br /><br />That said, money to me is just one metric that you use to measure progress. You can measure your performance using it along one axis, but toward what? It's important to be clear about your goals. Maybe you want a big car, or to send your kids to Stanford, or to cure cancer - for me, all of these are equal and perfectly valid goals. But chasing a metric without a goal is a meaningless exercise.<br /><br />@Anonymous - I respect your position, but the reality is that we have a scarcity based economy. Until someone figures out cheap energy and raw materials, this is going to remain true. The only way I see of transforming the economy to an alternative non-scarcity one is to go after cold fusion, zero point energy or even more exotic alternatives (or high efficiency solar in short term, say the next 200 years). But to deny that we have to work with a scarcity economy with all its limitations for the foreseeable future is, to me, extremely short sighted. As tabula rasa pointed out, any other scarcity based economy will always have some form of currency.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11938300811286150164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3718956085911858962.post-3121961318755304002012-06-19T15:03:38.585+05:302012-06-19T15:03:38.585+05:30@Anonymous
There is no one true way of life. Even ...@Anonymous<br />There is no one true way of life. Even if there was, there would still be some who would be opposed to it.<br /><br />'business' is being used as a metaphor here. You will need to examine the assumptions you bring to the table about business.<br /><br />IMO, this post is talking about a mindset, the premises that might necessitate that mindset, and what happens once you adopt that mindset.<br />You don't need to adopt that mindset if you don't agree to the premises.<br /><br />Also, making money for a business is how it perpetuates itself. Money is the existing means to do so. You are likely to have some equivalent to that in any alternative economic model you might have in mindtabula rasanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3718956085911858962.post-77035853061645479632012-06-19T06:49:44.305+05:302012-06-19T06:49:44.305+05:30you laid out what sounds like a miserable existenc...you laid out what sounds like a miserable existence. Where we constantly whore our selves off to the money interests. Where everything in life is business. While what you say may be true, the answer that we have to live life in constant fear and further commercialize ourselves to survive is disgusting. It is short sighted and frankly terrifying. And worst, it hides the true solution, where we must transform our economic model to an alternative one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3718956085911858962.post-88462800953002723552012-06-18T22:24:09.223+05:302012-06-18T22:24:09.223+05:301 thing i particularly liked here is your suggesti...1 thing i particularly liked here is your suggestion to benchmark based on the money one is making. But given the nature of industry and our culture of not discussing money openly, it becomes that much more difficult to really plot oneself on comparative graph. Well , i know, working in the BigCo, that i do i am (most probably!) making more money than if I would if I was at Infy. But how does it stack up to others, may be i have not networked enuf but do networks help here ?sumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17296057533855204633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3718956085911858962.post-88035832624663398212012-06-18T22:10:04.689+05:302012-06-18T22:10:04.689+05:30this post is reason enuf to make me want to be bet...this post is reason enuf to make me want to be better man :) thanks and keep it coming, extremely inspiringsumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17296057533855204633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3718956085911858962.post-68589110298317705032012-06-18T20:10:46.004+05:302012-06-18T20:10:46.004+05:30Thank you for this, Sidu. I know how easy it is to...Thank you for this, Sidu. I know how easy it is to get bogged down by bureaucracy and corporate drones; I am currently in a situation where I feel I can make a difference, but I'm finding it difficult to gather enough motivation. How do you decide if pushing hard is worth it, in the long run?<br /><br />What I whole heartedly agree with and appreciate is the need to plot out a trajectory for yourself in order to effectively decide your goals for today. I look at what you've done with C42, and that inspires me.Apoorv Khatrejahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13134505982002756075noreply@blogger.com