NewKidOnTheBlock

No country would be able to convince it's citizens - men or women - that war is a good idea. There are too many ways to get informed now. Historically and today (20th -21th century) country leaders/dictators had to spend a lot of time and resources to convince the citizens of these countries that war was a good idea. You can't do that anymore

There will never be another world war in the classic WW2 sense, as there will never be enough political capital for it in any major country, the world has changed too much. We can already see that WW2 tactics no longer work and we're shifting to a completely different style of warfare based on example of war in Ukraine, so why try to predict future in general based on skewed lenses of the past

I've purchased chess.com yearly diamond membership, it's kind of a throwaway money but I don't give a shit, let's see how much I improve over the span of a year, why not. A side quest of sorts. Weird thing is, for some reason I'm playing these competitive, high level games with 2000 ELO bots and always barely lose them (while winning over lower rated bots almost all of the time), but I'm still stuck in 800 - 1000 ELO range while playing 10 minute pvp matches, and regurarly getting crushed. Makes me think how reliable these bots actually are, or how reliable is the chess.com's version of ELO measuring system, or both.

Somewhere along the way - not sure since when exactly but I can pinpoint some specific moments in my memory which heavilly contributed - I've learned to associate positive attribute with lack of effort, investment, or nonchalantness. This shit is pretty common in our culture and it's like a default mode of literaly everyone. Look, I don't give a fuck, I'm putting in no effort and I'm still getting XYZ, I'm so fuckin cool. It pretty much defined the term coolness and spread like a cancer everywhere. A lot of the times, you can just look at someone and immediately see that this is a part of this person's software.

Aint no way I'm ever leaving myself unkept. I shave both my armpits and down there, as throughtly as possible. Just purely for the hygiene and practicality. Shaving anywhere else is weird and an overkill tho, in my opinion. Like, chest, legs, arms and shit like that can be all left naturally hairy Beard is a separate category, I just threat it whichever way I feel like, sometimes I shave it off completely, sometimes I just trim it slightly Definitely gotta be carefull about them balls tho fr, that skin is very sensitive. That's because it needs to be much more flexible in it's reaction to various temperatures unlike regular skin, so yeah, it's BS and dangerous to treat ball skin the way you would treat regular skin, but I thought this did not have to be explained. Lol

Imagine becomming a hacker under the disguise of penetration tester. That would some epic Palpatine moment for sure

I was thinking today of this topic of having children. I've come to a conclussion that, unless you made a kid by an accident - which is of course very common - as long as we are asumming any level of conscious, "premeditated" (lol) intent of having children before an act - I would say it is a society's job to convince us to want to have children. So far, it isn't doing a very good job at it. So.

In case I won't make any moves to advance in my goals during the day, I will at least write about it here to keep the focus and the idea alive. Just focusing and thinking about this topic of financial freedom and the ways I can achieve it - as well as the specific career paths and describing the various skills I can learn and actions I can take, are already contributing towards this goal. This is definitely true, but also - I want to be forgiving and good to myself, cause nobody else in this world will be (except for the ammount of people I can definitely count on the fingers of 2 hands). It's fine. I arrived tired from work and I went to sleep late last night. My bad, but also I won't push myself needlesly, since this is a marathon not a sprint. I definitely will need to sacrifice some foolish fun such as video games tho, and stuff like that. Life is about trade offs. I am choosing to better real life, because without my real life being dope I will never enjoy video games. And to have a dope life I pretty much have to get rid off this habit forever lol there really is no other choice. Like. I'll still be playing chess tho cause you can play chess when you're sitting in a train bored, so that's fine. I'm pretty shit at it (probably still better than you tho) but that's fine. Definitely need to start sleeping long enough ofc. Some days I have to wake up early so that sucks. I tend to like staying up late and pondering about shit, looking from the window, romanticizing about how life could look like. It is what it is. I'm just a human.

Bonus percentages added to my total chance of making this goal a reality, given that I: - focus on existing profitable niche with perspective reaching to far future - Maybe even think of niches that don't even exist yet but could start existing within my life time - Learn languages of high potential nations/countries (knowing english hasn't been an advantage for a long ass time now, since even a troglodite can learn that language on a level sufficient for proffessional communication. Knowing multiple major languages on the same level that I know english on however, is significant). - Investing is a given for me, but I'll mention it nevertheless - Somehow ending up doing something which I end up going to genuinely enjoy. That would give me a huge advantage and chance for success

Well, I kind of already laid out my proto plan in here, ofc I wasn't very intentional about it at all and let it just be - time to dust it off and start acting towards it again. Basically the most realistic path for me is to keep working 9-5 and working towards getting better and better 9-5s - while simultaneously working on solo projects, it can be via freelance model, but ideally I'd like to make something which would pour money towards me passivelly. And if I really focus on doing these 2 things simultaneously - I think in 10-20 years I should be able to acumulate enough money to retire. That's the basic idea. The reason why I estimate it'd take this long is due to my current lack of experience, having to develop those internal qualities such as focus and discipline etc., and I expect it to be very difficult. And I also wanna enjoy some life in the process. Nevertheless - it beats just slugging along, working for 40-50 fuckin years. I essentially aim to cut this time by half, or even by 3 quarters. By that time my appartment loan should be paid off too, so I'll be completely debt free and retired

My "shift" ending soon, I'll focus more on this topic

I'm gonna prioritize achieving financial freedom, it just makes the most sense to focus on that. After that I'll focus on other things

It's cool man, I'm not some prude, yall can post as much as yall like😅 Yeah I'm aware of him, haven't really watched any of his videos. Tbh I came to conclusion that I need to draw inspiration and confidence from within, somehow, instead of getting inspiration from the external world or people, or the internet. That's what I'm trying to do but it's difficult

Ability to have and mantain a smooth life is a necessary prerequisite for me to even consider having children. Which really just means having a fuckton of money. To the point you don't have to work anymore. No point in having children if you're a brokie or average earner in my opinion. Ofc most people having children are brokies or average earners and that's fine and I respect it. But it sucks. Limits your options severely. I'd rather wait till I got some bread or not have any children at all

I'm constantly confused and undecided about what I want from life, sometimes it's nothing. Sometimes I get bothered about something enough to start thinking about doing something and the steps I could take towards it, but then my mood changes and I couldn't give a fuck. Or the enviroment influences me. Or the difficulty of the goal, or my impatience. Or just the thought "What the fuck is the point of it all, at the end of the day" seems like I'm just cursed to forever be stuck in the purgatory stage and just be mediocre, or even slightly bellow mediocre