Я долго мучился читая одну книгу: сначала читаешь с интересом, а потом становиться скучно, а потом вообще невыносимо.

И стыдно начинать новую, пока не дочитал первую. В итоге вообще не читаешь.

В какой-то момент я понял, что не обязательно дочитывать до конца. Многие авторы могли бы просто статью написать содержательную, но решили вместо этого написать целую книгу.

И теперь я читаю пару книг в месяц. И не парюсь 🤓

Пример: Еда — одноразовое удовольствия. Я обожаю вкусно поесть и люблю ходить в новые рестораны. Но я также не думая могу купить себе приложуху которая будет мне служить ещё долго. Цена вопроса в обоих случаях $20.

Можно купить подписку на Ютуб премиум которая может сэкономить пару часов в месяц утрачено на рекламу. Цена вопроса $12.

А также с фильмами. Я долгое время мучился с пиратскими сайтами и потом понял, что нахуя это надо? Можно потратить три доллара в любом стриминг сервисе и наслаждаться.

Неужели моё время стоит дешевле трёх долларов?

Онлайн-курсы именно поэтому и стоит дорого. Всю информацию в любом курсе можно найти если захотеть. Но ты платишь большие бабки за курс, чтобы не тратить свое драгоценное время. Поэтому курс может стоить и $1000, так как ты наверное бы потратил 100 часов находя информацию самостоятельно.

Не жалейте денег там где не надо 😁

Very tropical and humid pretty much everyday. It was pretty much never cold throughout the entire five days we were there. Streets have tons of greenery and palm trees.

Very pretty sunset for our first night. Almost doesn't seem real.

Miami Design District

A modern neighborhood in Downtown Miami, with a very large amount of designer stores, different showrooms, and interesting architecture.

The neighborhood is about ten blocks clustered together with various stores, restaurants and cafes, and interesting art installments. This is all mixed in with the various architecture and greenery on the clean streets, giving this place a very modern and pleasant vibe.

There's many different stores here selling exotic things, everything from alcoholic ice cream to huge hipster plant stores.

There is a plethora of exotic cars throughout Miami. It reminds me of LA with the expensive show-off lifestyle. Overall, Miami seems like LA with more tropical weather.

Definitely recommend visiting this design district if you have a chance. This is how all neighborhoods should feel like!

This is what all of Silicon Valley should look like. Everything is well designed, there is a plethora of greenery, everything is fairly differentiated and isn't monotone, and it has a cozy feel to it.

Here is the map of the area: We are observing the green park area in the middle. The area towards Safeway is boring, but everything to the left of the park is brand new.

These cement balls are called bollards: They are meant to prevent cars from entering the area, either by accident or to park.

There's a couple of these bike garages surrounding the residential area of the square.

It's curious that there really isn't that many of the bike garages, maybe a total of eight across the entire square which definitely is not enough to park all the bikes of the surrounding tenants. It's also not clear how you rent them out. Posting simple instructions on the side would be helpful.

You can notice the variety in the architecture. They went with this fresh wood look for this specific section, presumably for a restaurant. All these spaces are empty, of course..

Again, lots of greenery mixed in with this lounge area. It's only missing some fire pits and some people.

We also get to experience our local homeless population here. You would think that the security guards here would do something about it but they walk past and don't bat an eye. Definitely ruins the aesthetic of the place, but a good reminder that this is still the hobo-filled SF Bay Area.

Here is a dog park filled with, well, just one dog. Maybe it's just not a populated time of day but this entire place seemed like ghost town.

Here is the sidewalk going alongside the movie theater. Overall, it's a pleasant place and designed pretty well.

The unfortunate truth about this place is that it lacks people and businesses, depriving it of any value. I came here for the first time purely to check out the architecture, not to visit any store. There has to be a natural flow of people coming in for different reasons, which will have a compound effect of adding foot-traffic and attracting more businesses. The Village should incentivize companies to move into the spaces, maybe by offering some sort of discounted rent initially.

It overall seems that there is a deficit of quality businesses in the area, and this might be pointing at a bigger problem of the offline world in Silicon Valley.

This can be observed on a biological level with our brain releasing dopamine (sensation of pleasure) whenever we attain something we want. However, once this feeling goes away, we require a new goal in order to attain another "fix". We truly are just dopamine-addicted creatures (notice how our phones and TikTok provide us with short bursts of pleasure).

It then makes sense that happiness is not something you achieve. It instead describes the process in which you attain your ambitions. You should strive to set these types of goals in which the process brings you joy and pleasure. This is also why striving for just money will never bring you joy, only the process by which you get there will bring you fulfillment.

My current goal is to bring our company into a breakeven point. What brings me immense joy is working with my team, interacting with customers, and fine-tuning our operations. Actually achieving our breakeven point will cause my brain to briefly experience a surge of dopamine that will quickly vanish, and my brain will await the next goal to set.