The Indian perspective is of paying people peanuts and dehumanising them for doing their job.
Many hurl the word "waiter" as an insult, no wonder why everyone is insensitive towards service workers.
A society that fights for its underclass is doing something right.
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I really like this post. Full support to
@Ishansharma7390
here. He is confidently questioning American norms from a very Indian perspective thereby asserting its superiority in a sense. This is why so many western mlecchas and their sepoy slaves are triggered. The cultural
Since I am writing about texts, here are some texts I enjoyed -
- Ramayana by Goldman
- Hamlet by Shakespeare
- Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima
- Hackers and Painter by Paul Graham
- The Great Automatic Grammatizator and other stories by Roald Dahl
What are the best places for a digital nomad lifestyle in India? Preferably devoid of crime, stable fast internet, close to nature, decent healthcare and good connectivity.
One thing I wish I had done more growing up, besides programming and math, is reading more books, especially the classics.
Modern information diet often feels superficial, and the break you get from reading something well-written and substantial is refreshing.
@Openatic
would happily sing praises when people bring up the underprivileged pasts of people who he worships but at the same time consider total dehumanisation of such jobs as someone asserting superiority.
Vance is a man's man. He lived a tough life and somehow kept going.
I remember hearing about him in 2016 and reading Hilbilly Elegy because of my brother and the slatestarcodex review of it.
Life is hard and unfair, still not hard or unfair enough to keep a good man down.
JD Vance is a great choice for VP.
- Marine Corps veteran
- Bestselling author
- Successful tech investor
- US Senator
Understands military, media, tech, finance, and politics.
@JDVance1
is a brave man, and a Renaissance man.
His posts make me appreciate my parents a lot as I can see the joy his kids brings to him, the same way me and my siblings made our parents happy.
Thanks Paul, you made my day.
- Panchatantra
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Various Encyclopaedias (Too many to name)
- The art of doing science and engineering by Richard Hamming
- Arabian Nights
Excluding technical texts since I am writing about leisure.
My new theory is when Jesus turned 12 he went to travel eastwards from Jerusalem to Asia
There he discovered and studied Hinduism/Buddhism for a decade
Then at age 30 he returned to Jerusalem, forked Judaism, added the Hindu/Buddhist concepts to it and that became Christianity
Writing things in long-form, not for public postings like
@paulg
but for your own self is a good way to cultivate this.
You learn to avoid vagueness and have a clear train of thought, extremely helpful, wish I had done it sooner.
Most of us deal with uncertainty in daily life, founders especially and yearn to reach someplace in life.
With good reading material, you enjoy the process rather than just the end goal, becoming rather than just being.
So please start reading, it's one of the best joys of life.
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@Ares_Industries
(YC S24) is building 10x smaller and cheaper anti-ship cruise missiles.
Current offerings by the primes are too big, too expensive, and are made in low volume. Ares was founded to solve this problem.
I am in the process of reading more from the Western canon so will mention those texts in a thread in a few years from now.
Quality leisure activities are vital for a happy life, I hope my thread encourages others to read good texts regularly, the ones they would like.
Brilliant work, recommended by the wise
@aneeshm
.
Lord Ram is dharma incarnate and Goldman gives you a great literary depiction of why that is.
Buy it asap!