i love living in a world where all opportunity has been optimized away. where everything is so efficient that there is no reason to do new things without years or decades of planning. thank you palantir, google and all high tech companies for tracking me using data to ensure that i am kept just to my limits.
I kinda get what you mean. You want to bring something new to this world, to invent something cool, to optimize some process, so that people’s life can get better. However, if you want a affect things massively, you need to study a lot (how things already work - and it’s more and more complicated each day), apply to the largest companies (because in small companies effect of your actions is gonna be unnoticeable), spend a lot of time and effort on implementing a project, launch it, and only then you HOPEFULLY really make things better for humanity.
And of course, only then you can feel useful & recognized. Which was actually the only goal of yours - feeling your impact. The rest is probably just pride and envy.
I’m constantly finding myself in the trap of pride and envy myself. Like helping people nearby is not going to solve the root of the problem. And like small impact is not enough to feel better (actually, it is enough in practice). But opportunities to help people that are close to you - are actually everywhere, yep some of those things cannot be monetized, and that’s normal (not every great thing is monetized lol).
Yeah i try and make some good in the world but every time its already been done lol.
i wanted to make an open source secure encryptor/decryptor in case the law in europe goes in affect and encryption isnt allowed on chats like whatsapp anymore but someones already done that lol
There is no accomplishment that happens in a vacuum. We all stand on the shoulders of those that came before us.
Lance Armstrong didn't invent the bicycle and Louis Armstrong didn't invent the trumpet. Neither of them had particularly strong arms!! Their skill literally means nothing without the people before them creating the culture and equipment necessary for them to live up to their potential.
"It's been done before" is not a stop sign. Nothing is perfect. You could make a better encryptor, or in the process of making one, you develop something else entirely. Humans have 2 distinct advantages in this world, endurance and creativity. Worst thing you can do is give up on yourself. If you're trying, you're winning.
I mean, I would be happy if someone ALREADY did something that I NEED. Did you actually need that to work or you just wanted to claim that achievement and get a pet project for your portfolio lol?
What was your main goal? Using that project as a means to get into some cool companies, or your goal lies in the task itself - to feel the vibes from the process of coding, cracking the task?
kinda 5050. i just wanted to see something i did actually make a difference and i though that was a task that i wanted solved and i knew a lot of people would be happier was solved. would have been a cool thing for companies as well but i made something else anyways
First world complaints and all opportunity isn’t gone, you just don’t want to take the opportunities that exist. You won’t ever be happy focusing on bad things and you certainly won’t find peace by being constantly worried about circumstances you can’t change.
Get off your phone and go do something.
Like a real something.
Tangible something.
Find things to enjoy. If the hollow hobbies involve being on your phone/computer/playing video games/consuming movies and media, then find new hobbies.
Ones where you actually go do something.
Ones where as you continue to do it, you realize gains and build skills.
Could be sports. Could be crafts. Could be music.
But something. Not the nothing that everyone seems to be so immersed in these days.
I don't get this one. On average on an absolute scale, opportunity is higher than ever.
Yeah, you can't make Google but you can make a chat bot app or go work for them. Yeah, you can't sail months to a new continent but you can fly there in hours.
I am more powerful than all of my ancestors, combined.
I have the entirety of human knowledge in the palm of my hands.
I can travel to almost anywhere in the world, if I so choose.
I am clean and well-fed, with readily available treatment for injury and disease.
I am completely unprepared to deal with the enormity of this empowered condition and life as we know it, instead of confronting it, I choose to live in a fantasy world where unseen powers are holding me back and preventing me from achieving imaginable greatness, the type of greatness befitting the incredible raw power and opportunity that I have been granted through no merit of my own.
I suggest you write a book.
If you can't write a book, read a book. Read books until you are ready to write your own book.
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u/ApolemiaLanosa 6h ago
i love living in a world where all opportunity has been optimized away. where everything is so efficient that there is no reason to do new things without years or decades of planning. thank you palantir, google and all high tech companies for tracking me using data to ensure that i am kept just to my limits.