MarkKol

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  1. More stage blue people can move into Europe yes, but a stage green person regressing back to blue is highly highly unlikely if not, border line impossible.
  2. Steve just had great judgement, a sort of wisdom for product and company design. These Google guys have none of that, just cool ideas. Mere concepts. Convenience is perhaps king here, nobody is buying this separately or paying extra for it. Remember who you're marketing to folks, humans. On the topic of Steve, he famously said that you have to build products starting with the customer first, which means that you don't make cool products and try to pitch them to people, instead you look at what the customer wants and build backwards to the product.
  3. Meh Knowing exactly what consumers want is the most important skill for any consumer based business, there is a lot of good ideas like this that don’t end up anywhere. If Consumer values was an actual class in business school, it would be the most important one.
  4. Immigrant + Single parent + Small ice cream business = still successful The reason I keep bringing up immigrants is because they are essentially starting from 0 Take in the fact that United States is basically the best country to do business in, no strict European regulation, plenty of people, tourism & concentrated cities. Asia & Africa are just way too poor, Europe is strict and lacks opportunity compared to United States. How many European startups/companies do you know of besides Ikea, LVMH companies & Volkswagen, I'll send you $10 right now if you can name 10.
  5. Nintendo has to update their hardware first, they’re not going to make a game that can’t run on their switch There are already big upgrades possible, The steamdeck & Asus’ Ally handheld are two such examples. It would be interesting if they made a ps5 competitor.
  6. Today I had an experience that proved the same thing. It was straight up stealing. It’s hard to understand greed especially. Greed that has so much yet it yearns for more.
  7. A Jordan Pererson-like position sounds fitting, but I guess you’ll be the one crying then.
  8. Do you soak them? I buy my lentils from Bio and it literally says to leave them in water for 3 hours before cooking I had a weird feeling everyone on this forum assumed dairy is bad
  9. Unique source material and unique experience of life overall
  10. In a week?? How much milk are you drinking? So you eat 100g of lentils in a day, how long does it take you to make them? Is this exclusive to goat milk or? you’re not adding any additional sugar?
  11. Doing that doesn’t guarantee that you will succeed, but not doing it certainty means that you won’t. People move to America from foreign countries and they still manage, what excuse do you have as a native? It’s possible, not for everyone though. Not everyone can be rich. It’s up to the Government to come up with scalable solutions that can truly raise the standard for everyone in the country.
  12. Just think more positively, I clicked on this thread because I consider hopefulness as one of my strengths. A lot of the times I feel like I’m so dumb and naive that I always expect the best no matter how things may be going. It’s hard for you to adopt this mindset permanently, I get it. Change is hard. Try your best. Don’t limit yourself for what’s realistic. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
  13. In a video I don't remember the name of, Leo said (and I'm paraphrasing) "Sitting alone quietly for a week/two weeks, this will grow you". Personal story / why I asked I have been living next to a very obnoxious hair salon all my life, in a small village. Now I am finally an adult with a job, my grandparents moved to a different country and they left an empty house only a few kilometers away. I am thinking of potentially moving there since I got their approval (they're not coming back). However, this house is really isolated from most of society. So I feel like moving there would improve my focus and creativity, but it would also bring my social interaction from 3/10 to 0/10 aside from my office job. The social and dating opportunities in my part of the country are astonishingly bad, I really feel like more focus & creativity would help me build up better skills and finally move to a more prosperous place. This will cost me quite a bit though. Worth it, or not? Overall, I'm quite resistant to loneliness when I built up some momentum. As silly as it sounds, I'm concerned that having 0 social interaction everyday will impair my already bad social skills even more. This house is so insolated I'm pretty much guaranteed to have multiple days where I don't see a single human being. I'm 19 years old as context. Living in a third world country with a extremely tiny population. Third option! - Move to a prosperous country right away, I have around 4000 euros/dollars saved up. The difficult part would be finding a job in a foreign country. a) suck it up, move to that isolated house and built up skills b) move right away c) stay at my current home and try to build up skills/study while not completely destroying my (already bad) social life
  14. An office job is my current situation. I’m not lonely per se, at least I don’t suffer from it as much. I always handled loneliness much better than most people, most likely because I can entertain my self with ideas and have a dialogue with myself similar to a normal conversation. However I prefer having a balance of alone and social time, which I’m not having and haven’t in a long time. The house is next to the village which already has plenty of nature, lots of forests and shiz. And yes, I quite enjoy big cities and busy streets. I will probably stay at my current location & job, build up skills and expand my knowledge of marketing and business. I will make it work. I feel better now. My situation is so unique to the point where I’m struggling to explain it simply.
  15. Here's a twist though, my current house is connected with the hair salon and If I want to go to my kitchen or bathroom or living room, I have to pass through the salon first. You could say that my very own house is a hair salon. It's a living hell for someone like me who likes to think out loud.
  16. How many times did you get banned here? ?
  17. Everything said above + Distracting noises, especially family gossip I often hear, human noises in general. The requests are the worst, “focus is about saying NO”. I swear to god an empty house is more valuable than the soil it sits on. Food that gives me stomach acid and or worsens my ability to think. (The list is longer than I expected). I found out that lot of “what’s healthy” (which is usually vegetables) don’t go well with me. I.e peppers (any kind), Brussels sprouts & maybe asparagus.
  18. Pretty sure Steve Jobs & Napoleon Hill both vouched for sexual transmutation as well. So it’s not groundless.
  19. I’m a psychedelic virgin
  20. Forum tidbits, getting laid series, and overall attitude towards life. I rewatched the Integrity video the most, Integrity is a very honorable thing to seek, even though it might not be descriptive of you.
  21. This is a great reminder to read the cult books on the booklist if your schedule is free Read the books, come back here and rethink your accusations. What does that guy know about cults that we don’t? These YouTubers never criticize things that are positively held by the culture, there you go. Humans were so fucked back then you would probably get stoned or hanged for talking about today’s basic science
  22. He hasn't visited since he made this thread, nice
  23. I literally saw a video on twitter today of 2 men climbing over a US wall and back. AND BACK! it took them less than 30 seconds. A lot of people scam their way through, especially into the US. You can apply for Asylum from anywhere in the world, even if you're from a safe European country. (and you can actually get it that way)
  24. How do you brush you teeth with only water? This mindset is odd I don't wash my jeans and I don't change. I've been wearing the same jeans for 2 months now. It was made for miners in the first place, denim doesn't have to be washed, ever. You can have more focus by getting rid of useless chores, and wash them less if you're scared of detergent? (questionable I must say)