I disagree. Once a certain skill level is achieved, money can be taken off the table. When you have a six figure salary, more money is not as significant as it once was. After this threshold is crossed, you gain the luxury of mostly choosing where to work.
I definitely notice a huge difference in desire to get up in the morning depending on the importance of what I'm working on. If it's menial or ultimately unimportant work, I can feel burned out working 30-40 hour weeks. If it's world changing stuff that's never been done before and will save thousands or millions of lives, I feel engaged working 60-80 hours a week.
When an employer is trying to recruit me, they don't need to offer more money than everyone else. They need to sell me on the importance of what I will be working on. For example, autonomous vehicles present continuous research and engineering challenges for which you often must provide the first solution anyone has ever devised. This addresses the problem of menial work. Accelerating the overall global development, production, and adoption of autonomous vehicles by a single day could save over a thousand lives. This addresses the problem of importance of work.
At the end of the day, money is secondary. I need enough that I don't need to worry about struggling financially; but, the primary reason I will accept an offer has nothing to do with money. We spend a large portion of our lives working. So, we better enjoy whatever it is that we do.
> I disagree. Once a certain skill level is achieved, money can be taken off the table. When you have a six figure salary, more money is not as significant as it once was.
More money is always better. More money means more savings, which means sooner retirement.
The Mexican Fisherman and the Investment Banker (Author Unknown)
An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.
The Mexican replied, “only a little while.”
The American then asked why didn’t he stay out longer and catch more fish?
The Mexican said he had enough to support his family’s immediate needs.
The American then asked, “but what do you do with the rest of your time?”
The Mexican fisherman said, “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siestas with my wife, Maria, and stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine, and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life.”
The American scoffed. “I have an MBA from Harvard, and can help you,” he said. “You should spend more time fishing, and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat, you could buy several boats, and eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middle-man, you could sell directly to the processor, eventually opening up your own cannery. You could control the product, processing, and distribution,” he said. “Of course, you would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then Los Angeles, and eventually to New York City, where you will run your expanding enterprise.”
The Mexican fisherman asked, “But, how long will this all take?”
To which the American replied, “Oh, 15 to 20 years or so.”
“But what then?” asked the Mexican.
The American laughed and said, “That’s the best part. When the time was right, you would announce an IPO, and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich. You would make millions!”
“Millions – then what?”
The American said, “Then you could retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you could sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siestas with your wife, and stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play guitar with your amigos.”
More realistically, assuming you have some experience as a developer, you can retire in 10 years of work if you play it right and are not against a move to a low cost of living location (country). That's much better than a life of toil until you're 65.
While I agree with the OP's statement that most people work for the money because they have bills to pay, there comes a point where one can earn half as much as they currently do and stay afloat. Working for money less means/allows spending time, the only resource no one can get more of, doing things they love and enjoy. If someone does work they enjoy, or live a satisfying life (even when considered "toiling" by others) then money isn't that important or a driving force. Some people bust their butts now, while young and able bodied, for the possibility of retiring later on. Other people don't really think much about their life or have future goals or plans... those people's life's plans tend to be chosen and dictated by others. Whatever you (anyone) do it's just best to be intentional about it.
They have some very serious talent on their payroll.
I noticed Yann LeCun (inventor of convolutional neural networks and head of Facebook's new AI lab) congratulated Gary Bradski on the funding.
If you're not familiar with him, here's his LinkedIn profile.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/garybradski
I don't usually get angry just from seeing a product promo. But, this has done it. Note that the glasses are stationary for all but one shot where the movement is slow and linear and it still shows tracking error. If it's not ready, it's not ready. They should have kept their reputation in tact and tried again in a few years rather than trying to sell a bad prototype under a false banner.
My attention is directed toward the Oculus Rift. I own the dev kit and have been following Oculus VR closely. Save your VR/AR gadget money for their consumer release if you want something that lives up to the hype and delivers on its promises.
The NSA stole the prism image for the logo from a professional photographer without permission. In theory, that photographer could have had the products pulled due to the photo copyright.
I read his blog posts leading up to this and liked the idea. So, I decided to try it myself. After many revisions, I finally figured out a good way of doing it and it ended up being more expensive than just eating regular grilled chicken, sweet potatoes, etc.
He is using Maltodextrin for carbs. It likely contains Glutamic Acid and has a horrible glycemic index. You might as well eat sugar. I don't know what he is using for protein; but, I guarantee it sucks. The correct approach would be to use cross flow microfiltered whey protein because it retains all of the essential amino acids. It's also as expensive as Greenwise/Whole Foods chicken. Cheaper methods tend to lose certain essential amino acids.
Another issue is the absence of toxins. Believe it or not, consuming the toxins contained in whole foods makes us more robust. There is actual research that has analyzed these effects.
Believe it or not, consuming the toxins contained in whole foods makes us more robust.
This is similar to the phenomenon where children who grow up desperately poor and literally living in dirt have a markedly lower rate of autoimmune diseases than first world kids.
>= ~5 Sv in an acute dose is generally fatal, but a man named Albert Stevens was injected with a small dose of plutonium in a human radiation experiment, and suffered a net dose of 64 Sv over a 21 year period before dying of heart disease. [1]
"Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger" has _some_ truth to it. The body adapts and learns from various harmful things, hence it's less likely to affect you as strongly in the future.
I was simply looking at products available on bodybuilding.com. You can probably find it cheaper from other sources. You also want to make sure they don't contain Stevia or artificial sweeteners like Acesulfame Potassium. They both can have negative health effects; especially when consumed regularly in large amounts.
To anyone seriously considering doing something like this, you will find that the carbs are challenging to get into a shake.
You can get all the right vitamins and minerals. On that note, don't use calcium carbonate like he does unless you want kidney stones; use calcium citrate.
You can get high quality CFM whey protein assuming you're okay with getting all your protein from whey (grilled chicken is still a better idea for other reasons).
However, the carbs take up a lot of volume. You can use steel cut oats, potatoes, sweet potatoes, white rice... (brown rice has arsenic) You will find that it doesn't fit well in the shake. It's easier to eat it as food. My experience so far anyway...
I've been putting oat flower in my shakes recently [0]. Nutrition-label wise it's the same as my steel cut oats, and I've had a tough time finding any solid information on whether or not it digests differently or if it's really meaningfully different at all. (It's easy to find forum posts saying they know what's up, but I haven't found much research or solid medical information. tbh I haven't spent hours searching or anything).
I started doing it because I really hate cooking. I don't even want to boil water for five minutes in the morning to make oatmeal. I don't use it for any kind of super-shake or full meal replacement, but that and some fruit for breakfast seems to work for me pretty well.
Hopefully I'm not unknowingly totally killing myself, heh.
Look into whey protein isolate...it's very low in lactose - less than 1g per 28g serving of the stuff I have...I'm not lactose intolerant though so I'm not sure if even that would be too much (compare to 12g lactose in an 8oz cup of milk).
There is too little lactose in whey protein for it to give any symptoms even to people with the most extreme lactose intolerance (absolutely zero lactase production).
I'm glad someone mentioned the carbs here – it gives me a good excuse to pipe in. Maltodextrin is a ludicrous oversimplification of carb intake. The carb intake in whole foods is ridiculously complex, given the ubiquity of the variety of carbohydrate in all of our foodstuff. Not only do you have to take into account the stuff that we directly metabolise, but all the stuff that the little bacteria that live in our gut like to eat too.
Experiments have been done with mannose to try and recover a genetic disorder where the bio-availability of mannose has been impaired. A kid was fed with mannose in what was assumed to be the right amount of the correct monosaccharide. Turns out he ends up having a toxic reaction to the mannose, even though it goes part-way to curing his particular disease.
I know researchers in this area that don't eat red meat because they're worried about the incorporation of particular sugars into their body that are not natively found in humans. I never really understood why I looked down on biology when I was younger. It's one of the most complex and intriguing problem spaces in the world, and well worth investing your time (on the order of decades) to try and figure something out.
