I’m only working 50+ hours a week in the hopes that eventually I can spend most of my time in the intense seclusion of my study, or as a flâneur meditating in cafés.

Sometimes you read a primary source from the late Republic and just think yeah I’m definitely supposed to live in a villa on the Bay of Naples away from these people and only visit the city once a year to collect my grain dole and remind them who actually pays for the legions.

The nice thing about WFH is you can go lay down at any time. You have access to so many different postures that are unavailable to you in the office.

Be me WFH for 2.5 years. Be very productive in that time. Asked to come into office this week for 1st time in years to “network”. Go in and barely a soul to be found. No one I know. See kid playing with a Rubik’s cube while updating GitHub. Woman watching Friends reruns on phone. Send 4 emails. Answer 3 Teams chats. Close laptop and go home.

In the ancient world there were no "bodybuilding" competitions. Those are not useful. they had Osteocalcin competitions. Who had the strongest skeleton in the city. Whose bones were hardest. They would smash a rock against your collarbone. If it broke you lost. If it didn't you won.

In europe they let the grocery store cashiers sit down on chairs. In the US they have to stand. Cultural difference.

The treadmill-desk. Something you don’t see very often in the 4HL.

Former coworker has been out of billable work for 5 months and sitting on the bench, but he hasn’t been let go by the firm yet. He’s just taking a bunch of courses on udemy and getting certs. He’s actively applying for client work, but still nothing. It’s a miracle he hasn’t gotten a pink slip yet.

My neighborhood hardware store closed this past week after 60 years in business. Elderly owners inherited it from their parents. Tried selling it, but mom & pop hardware stores are a tough sell. Will probably get replaced by a Wing Stop.

It’s Wednesday. Time to strap in and lock on. You are weapons free and cleared to engage.

Math guys are always like "I'm trying to make it easy for you. I'm not going to one of those guys who makes math hard. I'm going to dumb it down" It doesnt work.

Tfw you have the Faustian spirit

The Greeks and Romans walked everywhere. Not for fitness but for thinking. The mind moves when the body moves at a natural pace. Cars broke this. Now people sit and wonder why their thoughts feel stuck.

Constantly buying one way flights creates a lindy situation because you don't know when you'll be back. a few days, a couple weeks, months, years? This is how people used to travel. Roundtrip is not lindy.

I should be able to work full-time remotely from the privacy and comfort of my mahogany wood paneled office. Warm fire blazing while drinking a glass of whiskey, smoking a cigar.

If you’re the kind of person who gets anxious on planes, reading about the actual mechanical failures that cause crashes will either make you feel better or much worse. Most of them are incredibly specific and rare.

I’m currently working on developing my own custom made LLM whose sole purpose is generating text that doesn’t include em dashes.

A ton of 4hlers get their volatility away from work by not stopping or slowing down driving close to pedestrians. They just keep rolling hoping to time it perfectly. Perilous business for the Lindy walker.

You don’t really hear about people going on Sunday drives anymore.