Just the opening alone, doesn’t know what to do with his life, but mentions ‘NPC coworkers’ (that is also so fucking weird, I don’t think I have worked with much people who gave off an NPC vibe off at all, like people always seemed like people with lives and hobbies, social lives, families interests, stuff they cared about, etc.
It started to dawn on me that what I actually wanted was to look like Elon, and that is incredibly cringe. It hurts to even type this out.
My reactions to this ‘ow come on, you call others NPCs?!’ and ‘at least he knows it is cringe’
When I got back home and regaled my friends with my mountain stories, one of my friends joked that I should work for Elon and Vivek at DOGE and help America get off its current crash to defaulting on its own debt. So I reached out to some people and got in.
sheesh i guess life sciences are too much of a dirty job [1] for billionaire megaminds. unless they want to pull a theranos, of course
[1] unlike with physics to some degree, or maths generally or CS specifically you won’t get too far on blackboard only without lab work. like selected subfields of physics, biotech has that aura of place where all these old scifi tropes that sv wankers misunderstand and fawn over come to life, and also there’s some crossover with startup/vc crowd
Funnily enough, Angela Collier also made some pretty good videos for “actually” studying physics. Spoiler: no need to go to Hawaii, or anywhere further than your own couch/desk!
Physics was actually a dangerous sinkhole for my young undiagnosed adhd brain. There’s always something else to learn, some new rabbit hole to dive into, some cool research testing the limits of yet another poorly understood frontier. It’s like tvtropes but with the mysteries of the universe.
I was fascinated to learn everything, but could never hold a single subject long enough to comprehend it fully. I realized I would never hope to make a meaningful expansion or contribution to the science. You start out with ball bearing cannons and air hockey tables, and next thing you know you’re reading about string theory and supersymmetry, dark matter mathematics, the effect of gravity on time, bosons and gluons and photons, Oh my! Then you get an advisor who’s been studying the same formula on the same whiteboard for 60 years, trying to trisect an angle with naught but a compass, and if they are kind they tell you to run. If you’re smart, you listen.
One thing that may not be visible from outside the profession is that there are a lot of steps in between air-hockey tables and the research frontier, especially for the part of the frontier that gets the most press — black holes, Large Hadron Collider stuff, quantum computing, etc. Wanting to understand any of those things at a level better than (bong rip) man, like, quantum mechanics, dude, requires systematicstudy. Doing that entirely on one’s own might not be impossible, but it’s damn hard.
remember to carry the thumb drive with your personal frame of a blade of grass falling - you should all have been issued one in your welcome packs by cult greeter upon arrival
Just the opening alone, doesn’t know what to do with his life, but mentions ‘NPC coworkers’ (that is also so fucking weird, I don’t think I have worked with much people who gave off an NPC vibe off at all, like people always seemed like people with lives and hobbies, social lives, families interests, stuff they cared about, etc.
My reactions to this ‘ow come on, you call others NPCs?!’ and ‘at least he knows it is cringe’
This has got to be a parody.
Ha, I recently watched, this video billionaires want you to know they could have done physics by actual Theoretical Physicist, Angela Collier. I’m quite sure he will not be getting an actual degree in physics.
I don’t have the energy to read the orange site comments.
sheesh i guess life sciences are too much of a dirty job [1] for billionaire megaminds. unless they want to pull a theranos, of course
[1] unlike with physics to some degree, or maths generally or CS specifically you won’t get too far on blackboard only without lab work. like selected subfields of physics, biotech has that aura of place where all these old scifi tropes that sv wankers misunderstand and fawn over come to life, and also there’s some crossover with startup/vc crowd
Funnily enough, Angela Collier also made some pretty good videos for “actually” studying physics. Spoiler: no need to go to Hawaii, or anywhere further than your own couch/desk!
how to teach yourself physics
how to solve a physics problem
The orange site comments aren’t all worthless:
Physics was actually a dangerous sinkhole for my young undiagnosed adhd brain. There’s always something else to learn, some new rabbit hole to dive into, some cool research testing the limits of yet another poorly understood frontier. It’s like tvtropes but with the mysteries of the universe.
I was fascinated to learn everything, but could never hold a single subject long enough to comprehend it fully. I realized I would never hope to make a meaningful expansion or contribution to the science. You start out with ball bearing cannons and air hockey tables, and next thing you know you’re reading about string theory and supersymmetry, dark matter mathematics, the effect of gravity on time, bosons and gluons and photons, Oh my! Then you get an advisor who’s been studying the same formula on the same whiteboard for 60 years, trying to trisect an angle with naught but a compass, and if they are kind they tell you to run. If you’re smart, you listen.
One thing that may not be visible from outside the profession is that there are a lot of steps in between air-hockey tables and the research frontier, especially for the part of the frontier that gets the most press — black holes, Large Hadron Collider stuff, quantum computing, etc. Wanting to understand any of those things at a level better than (bong rip) man, like, quantum mechanics, dude, requires systematic study. Doing that entirely on one’s own might not be impossible, but it’s damn hard.
Great no problem I’ll just read through the sequences and be all caught up!
remember to carry the thumb drive with your personal frame of a blade of grass falling - you should all have been issued one in your welcome packs by cult greeter upon arrival
I keep it with me always, but never in plain sight in case a computer sees it through a webcam and starts getting ideas
eyelid twitches