Tag: rant

• Stop Being a Serf

  Followup on The AI Engame by Adam Something

  Something that has bugged me for a long time is how accepting people are for monthly fees.

  I hate monthly fees, I have never understood how people seem to think its "cheaper". In theory, there is a market for renting or services, for example, I pay a monthly fee for internet and electricity, because its a ongoing service. Back in the day of rental movies, if you were only to watch that movie once, why wouldn't you rent it?

  I don't have anything against services where you actually have a continual service, like internet access, a training program, podcasts, etc. I also dont have problems with renting and leasing things, where you get the same value, for a lower cost, at the end of its usefulness for you, for example renting a scissor lift, tools, transit vans, etc.

  What actually annoys me is how people don't seem to understand the value of owning, primarilly that you don't need to pay for it anymore, secondarily that no one will take it back. And the thing is, you can still buy things. For the cost of Spotify today, you can buy one or two albums — every month. How many new albumns do you listen to every year? Would it be cheaper to just buy them, rather than paying for whatever music streaming service you use? Probably, so why do you keep paying for the streaming service?

  Now that isnt the great part of owning, you might save a couple of bucks per month, but what if you were to stop paying? You would have nothing, you have paid hundereds (maybe even thousands) of dollars for music, yet now you have nothing, but you could have so much.

  This doesnt only apply to music, think of all the different services that charges you every month, or the convinience services that you use when you can't be bothered to do routine tasks. After everything is done and payed for, what does it leave you with?

  Sure, you can afford it.

  Money comes, money goes. They say

  Sure, money does go, but you can never be too sure money comes...

  15-01-2026

• I Will Not Participate in the Rat Race

  Warning, this ended up as mostly me rambling...

  What is the purpose of life anyway?

  If you've taken part in online discussions, particularly tech related forums, you've probably noticed that it's expected that if you want a fulfilling life — you need to become rich.

  Here is how to become a millionare by investing

  How my startup earned millions

  super-ai.dev raised 50 million in VC funding

  Being a worker means being a sheep, real life is enjoyed by entrepenours. Grinding the 996 is worth it, because why would you want to be sitting at home if you don't have a shitton of money.

  Create a start-up, blitzscale it, raise investor money and sell it before it collapses — repeat.

  Let's roll it back

  Let me be abstract, what is the purpose of "work"? Why are you going to the same place, doing the same thing, the same hours, day after day? Because it's efficient.

  I like to see it as a scale from 0 - 100, where 0 is you do absolutely everything yourself. You are a literal caveman in the woods — building a shack with sticks and rocks. By 100, the only thing you do is the job you specialize in. Someone else built your home, grew your food, drove you to work, cut the food on your plate, wiped your ass. Most of us fall somewhere in between, we like to cook our own meals, however with ingridients that someone else provided, we like to program using compilers someone else has made. Some of us like to DIY, other people call handymen and craftspeople. That's fine, that is how modern society is structured.

  Grug

  Imagine a tribe, where everyone fends for themselves, they're all at 0 on the scale. Everyone spends all their time to achieve their baseline life quality. However, one person decides to specialize, let's call him Grug.

  Grug decides to focus on producing more firewood, which he trades with his other tribespeople in exchange for food and shelter. Not having to worry as much about food and shelter frees up time to produce more firewood, and having more time allows Grug to become more experienced and work more efficiently. This tribe of 16 people, who used to spend an hour a day collecting firewood, is now supplied buy Grug, who can provide everyone with firewood in just 12 hours. Grug in exchange is provided the resources to achieve his normal baseline life quality, and now has 4 hours that he can use for what he wants.

  Perhaps he will use this time to find a better rock for his axe, allowing him to work even more efficiently. Perhaps he will spend this time collecting resources to get a bigger shack. Perhaps he will even just relax, and you know — enjoy life.

  Grug has moved up the scale, and has more time to enjoy life, or enjoy a better quality of life.

  Kevin

  Now imagine Kevin, he works in Nos Langeles for a tech startup. He works twelve hours a day, six days a week, and he earns bank. Unlike Grug, Kevin doesn't cook his own food, he is able to pay a chef to cook it for him. Kevin doesn't drive to work, he pays for a chauffeur so he can clock in some extra hours on the ride to work. Kevin doesn't watch movies, he pays someone else to do that and tell him Kevin if he enjoyed the movie or not. Kevin doesn't wipe his own ass..

  You probably understand where I'm going with this. The short abstract of this is that.

  • The more you specialize, the more you can achieve — and the more you can buy.
  • However, the more you specialize, the less you live.

  There is a point of diminshing returns on specialization.

  • I am currently writing this from a warm building, built by an expert. In return, I'm willing to specialize in something myself (personally, software development)
  • You may want to hire a handyman to build a fence, personally I would like to do that myself. However, that is subjective and you have a choice.
  • Neither of us want's to work so much that we can afford a mansion, which we can't live in because we are to busy working.

  Please refer to this completely real graph with real values First you gain free time and quality of life, however eventually your free time plateous, but quality of life keeps increasing. The further you go however, the less free time you have. You may have everything you could dream of, but you don't have time live it.

  Take a moment to reflect on yourself, your friends and people you know — where they end up on this scale.

  That friend that works part time and lives in a small apartment. While they don't spend a lot of time at work, they instead have to spend time cooking their own food with raw ingridents. They have to hand wash their dishes, because they can't afford a dishwasher.

  That relative that always drives expensive cars, but never shows up to get-togethers. That old neighbour that is always home, but is always fixing something.

  I don't want to be rich

  I'm not going to found my own AI start-up. I'm not going to invest in the orphan crushing machine. I'm not going to work weekends to buy a new car.

  I'm going to work my 7,5 hours a day, 5 times a week. I'm going to take the bus, so I can spend less time driving. I'm going to live in my house out in the country, where I can thrive.

  When I have payed of my mortage, I will probably work 80% instead, I don't want the money,

  I'm content. I'm happy.

  02-01-2026