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A reader emailed me recently and asked how I’m able to have such a great group of friends who are so adventurous and into crazy ideas like buying an island and other properties around the world. I cer
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In 2015, due to a series of events , I began a journey across the globe where I lived out of two bags for eleven months . In May of 2017, I left my full time job and started another journey, this time
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Why is there only one Elon Musk? Why is there so much low-hanging fruit? created: 2020-06-30 ; modified: 2021-04-07 Table of Contents Discuss this post on my forum. Am considering taking Tesla private
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This is a (very late) reply to Patrick McKenzie's " Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice ". I find much of his advice very sensible, and it might be very helpful to someone in the
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