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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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The difference between work and a hobby is whether or not you could end up hurting other people more badly than yourself. It's not about whether or not you are getting paid. Flying your personal plane for pleasure is a hobby, especially if you don't care if you die trying a stunt. Taking along a passenger is work. Even if they appear to sign up for the risks on paper. What counts is having enough knowledge to judge the risk AND enough agency to control your outcomes. I still think about the Titan submersible incident. Work going bad because it was treated like a hobby. The fate of the 19-year-old Suleman Dawood is especially tragic. The others at least arguably knew what they were doing and what sort of person they were trusting their life to in Stockton Rush. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_submersible_implosion#Fatalities
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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An interesting way to apply this on a personal scale is to think about whether what you're doing is only for yourself as you currently are, or will affect the person you'll be after your next major lifestage transform. Will retired-you thank you or curse you for what you're doing? How much responsibility do you have for future you? How much resentment do you have towards past you for saddling current-you with technical debt? Bryan Johnson gets this attitude down to a diurnal cycle, where evening persona has some responsibility for morning persona, who is a different person due to having gone through the death-resurrection of sleep. Bryan Johnson drives this attitude down to a diurnal cycle, where evening persona has some responsibility for morning persona, who is a different person due to having gone through the death-resurrection of sleep.bad. This is also why I think the unqualified "live in the moment" advice is terrible. It is a kind of suicidal ideation.
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