PenguinPablo

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    Given that you have a "degree" to fall back on and some CAD skills I think it is reasonable to assume you can get a more "tolerable" job.

    Something less mind-numbing?

    I don't recommend pushing hard or leaning into something you clearly have an aversion to.

    But it will be much harder also if income and survival become a problem. 

    So maybe consider an "okay" job that you don't absolutely hate.

    That's what I would do... personally if I were in a similar situation.

     

  7. Posted

    15 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Mind is not the issue, need the freedom to work on my own projects and vision, not someone else's.

    Yeah I guess I haven't fully figured myself out yet.

    What I described is a midpoint between the two extremes. For myself anyway. Who knows. Maybe it is a sustainable approach for my personality.

    Nevertheless, having your entire mind and body co-opted full time for company is arguably worse. It is essentially physical and mental prostitution.

  15. Posted · Edited by PenguinPablo

    15 hours ago, Girzo said:

    Nah, Apple still rocks, M series chips are the best the mobile computing world has seen, no-one can catch up to this level of innovation and it has been 5 years already since they hit the market.

    It's just the iPhone, the formula has been optimized since iPhone 12. 12 is already a perfectly good smartphone, doesn't need anything new, and it is like that, the phone hasn't really changed since then. It was just a good damn phone on release, and every year a new base model also is.

    Yeah it's powerful but the amount of innovation especially relative to the price is so subtle that it does not warrant subsequent releases.

    But you are essentially correct that there is basically not a more powerful and all around as good phone as Apple. 

    LG was constantly tinkering with features when they had the V series but their marketing was shit so they went out of business. 

    @Leo Gura

    Steve Jobs did say without LSD there would be no Apple. 

     

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    This shit is so important because the avg person is so deeply entrenched in conformity.

    That shit will gaslight you and you may be tempted to conform in subtle ways but that shit is poison.

    The implications of this are massive. 

    Find ways to go against the grain. Not just for the sake of it but properly analyze and deconstruct something about your life.

    Maybe it's something like sleeping on the floor instead of an actual bed. 

    You will start to see everything differently and find novel solutions and better ways of doing things.

    But you have to be daring enough to go against the grain.

  17. Posted · Edited by PenguinPablo

    @nerdspeak

    A woman can go on tinder and basically have sex every day if she wanted to, multiple times even.

    Compare the sex life of an average male to an average female, all else being equal the guy is struggling 90% of the time.

    Hence when guys get judged for x or y. Geo-maxing, or whatever else, I think some of the stage green critiques are warranted but require additional context and nuance which nobody does.

    It's like we're comparing two highly asymmetric outcomes and we're not even being honest about each other's realities. 

  18. Posted

    On 11/14/2025 at 4:05 PM, Leo Gura said:

    If you're in top 10% on looks, you can get a lot of average girls off online. That'a how many PUAs get their lay counts up.

    Most highly successful PUAs have great looks and are exceptionally extroverted.

    I think you're just too cerebral to the point where it overcomplicates it. 

    That along with many other factors. Really it's a just a cocktail of behaviors or traits that lead to "success"

    If your life is setup in such a way, where the cards are stacked in your favor it's not that hard. But I do think the funnel dries up if you are high IQ, neurodivergent like autism, or tier 2 spiral dynamics. Of course below average in looks or even slightly above average is not great.

    Not necessarily a bad thing but not a good idea to define your self worth on this singular aspect of life if such is the case.

    Really the more points you tally up the easier it is. Essentially stacking the cards in your favor to get as much p-word as possible.

    * Promoter ✅ 

    * Geo-maxing ✅ 

    * Ok with operating in moral grey zones ✅ 

    * Sacrificing other important areas to focus on partying and sex  ✅ 

  20. Posted

    You have to be very creative with designing your life. 
    90% of people don’t  even question anything at all.

    But you have to question and breakdown every structure and facet of your life and society at large.

    Start bending the rules. 
    I’m not saying to break the law. 
    But to simply deviate from dogma and convention wherever your analysis has deemed essential.

     

  21. Posted

    It is not a bad idea to establish a secure financial / career situation.

    Who knows maybe sooner rather than later obviously good opportunities will come your way and you'll be able to jump on them.

    But when you're stuck surviving it's hard to do anything but frantically swim just to not drown.

    I made the same decision (doing something practical) you did except a few years later. And also estimate it should take about 3-5 years to develop some serious financial freedom.

    I also went down the sales and marketing rabbi-hole and burnt out (mainly from the sales stuff. A lot of emotional baggage and stress from constant quotas).

  22. Posted

    On 10/4/2025 at 3:39 PM, Leo Gura said:

    Even if it was just a draft, the substance of the research is shit. It doesn't matter how well it is written or how accurate the math is, what matters is that nothing new was discovered or said. It is 200 pages of pointlessness written just so you could call yourself a doctor.

    You can't draft your way out of that problem.

    This shows the hollowness of sports science. They will write 200 pages of jargon just to tell you that eating donuts makes you fat. This is an aspect of the larger issue of the corruption of science and academia. Science and academia are used to bullshit. And scientists do not understand this problem deeply enough because they are in on the racket.

    This doesn't just apply to sports science. 

    The same goes for the vast majority of research conducted at universities. 

    That's a big reason I always thought it was such a waste of time.

    Why would I devote myself to decades of research and work just to say "water is wet".

    I went to my old uni recently and basically everything was just replicating Andrew Huberman podcasts into a study.

    Nevertheless, it is such a fucking waste of time and resources.

    I can't understand why so many people devote their lives and studies to this. 

    It's not interesting. And it's extremely fucking slow in terms of personal development and learning. 

  23. Posted · Edited by PenguinPablo

    I cant speak for all situations.

    But I do speak from experiences as I have suffered from it since very, very young in multiple places in my body.

    First there studies that show a hedonic adaptation

    So basically people come back to their baseline happiness even after they developed chronic pain.

    In my experience there is truth to this. Despite the fact that my body hurts and is less mobile, I am still generally content. Although it did take a couple years to settle back into this reality.

    Lastly what I have managed to do is basically instead of trying to force my body to do what it cannot, I try to adapt and make modifications. 

    That in itself has been it's own reward. I could become overweight, high blood pressure, and very unhealthy but instead I am more healthy than most.

    And I didn't do that by going to the gym but turning my daily life into the gym. That entire process forces me to be creative and I would argue the way I am doing it has many advantages over the traditional way people do because they haven't been forced to adapt and question the status quo.

    And for sure I have hated my life at times. I have lost opportunities available to me economically, social, and so on and so forth...

    Because perhaps I am physically incapable. Or socially etc...

    But instead of trying to force and push against the wall, letting things flow and going with the current. 

    Idk I hear that life can surprise it if you let it, instead of forcing what you cling to as the ideal.