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Patrick Heizer

@PatrickHeizer

Biomedical engineer, permaculture farmer, Camus scholar, Maryland supremacy, husband, and father.

Frederick, MD Katılım Aralık 2009
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Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer·
Otto von Bismarck is one of the most impactful people to have shaped the modern world, yet few know anything about him. I genuinely believe he is one of the most important figures for our age. Why? Because of artificial intelligence. Link below:
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Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer·
Cardinal on a fence post.
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Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer·
Hey there, Mr. Snake. Hope you've been feasting on some voles.
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Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer·
@MrnllMtt No, that is literally your assumption and mischaracterization. No one in FIRE advocates doing nothing for 40 years. Pursuing passion projects and achieving life goals are huge parts of the post retirement transition. There is even "Barista FIRE" where you continue to work.
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Matteo Marinelli
Matteo Marinelli@MrnllMtt·
@PatrickHeizer No, take a look at the FIRE community and you will see this is not my assumption but theirs
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Matteo Marinelli@MrnllMtt·
The ultimate irony of the FIRE movement is that the personality type required to achieve it makes actually retiring impossible: if you possess what it takes to accumulate enough capital to entirely exit the economy by age forty, you are definitely not the kind of person who can spend the next four decades sitting quietly on a porch doing nothing. You are simply substituting the corporate hamster wheel with an ascetic religion of extreme frugality, trading the best years of your life for a hypothetical future, while completely ignoring the structural reality that increasing your income is infinitely easier than cutting your baseline expenses to zero. Money is only useful when spent.
Boring_Business@BoringBiz_

The FIRE (financial independence retire early) movement has done an immense amount of harm to society This is coming from someone who used to be a believer in FIRE, but I have realized just how much of a fallacy it is, as I have grown older Taking a bunch of high potential income earners and convincing them that their life goal should be to pursue a net worth that allows them to check out of society is immensely damaging to the social fabric Many of these people sit on the upper echelon of office jobs, have built great businesses, or are at the top of their field in their career field They should be inspired to continue doing what they are best at, and ultimately, mentor and give back to the next generation who want to pursue those same goals Instead, many of these FIRE folks become wandering retirees with a meaningless life who are trying to grasp on to money as their north star It is a false sense of security and accomplishment. Becoming wealthy should never be a goal in the first place. It should have always been to pursue something that adds meaning to your own life and to society It is a completely fallacy to believe that retiring will be your source of happiness. More often than not, it has the complete opposite effect

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Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer·
#7 The Courage To Be by Paul Tillich An exploration of the ontological nature of human anxieties. To navigate them, Tillich argues that humans must cultivate the "courage to be," the affirmation of one's own being in spite of the ever present threat of non-being. Rating: Ambivalent. While there were certainly great sections and nuggets, much of it felt like a woo-woo Protestant self-help book that could've "been a podcast" (or an LLM search). If you want want to find, the "courage to be," I would recommend Camus (who Tillich seems to misunderstand, though I don't fault him for that, as they were contemporaries and he could not know the direction of Camus' project).
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Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer·
#6 Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer Year 2454, a hard-won utopia with widespread Abundance, until a convict and a sensayer (a spiritual advisor) stumble upon the wild card that might destabilize the entire system. Rating: Hooked. At first the world came at me hard, but as I stabilized and the pieces unfolded, I'm captivated by the mystery and will absolutely prioritize book two. I've heard it's even better.
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Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer·
Thread: Books I've read in 2026 Written in simple prose that is both beautiful and haunting, this is the story of the life of Arseny, a 15th century Russian medicine man, a tale of magical realism and redemption that spans from rural Russia to Jerusalem. Rating: Solid, there are truths within these pages that I understand, yet don't comprehend.
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Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer·
@RuxandraTeslo I've often thought of Ted Chiang's short story, "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," about the cognitive shift that occurred when humanity moved from oral to written culture. It seems likely to me that we are undergoing a similar shift now, for better and for worse.
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Ruxandra Teslo 🧬@RuxandraTeslo·
I really think the biggest danger from AI is the slopification of our minds. We should be quite socially penalising of people who produce slop, especially if they're high status (like the CEO of one of the most successful young companies), because when high status ppl do things, they're much more likely to get normalised.
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Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer·
@Wuliujushi Haven't read that one, but I need to read more Malraux than I have.
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Daniel Dennison@daniel_dennison·
@PatrickHeizer Where did he get these numbers, I have more 10y+ on my LinkedIn (for my company) than he has listed here?
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VineTuning@VineTuning·
@PatrickHeizer It’s very odd on here even with an account as small as mine I don’t see everyone’s notifications. When I do, it’s often not in real time. But I feel like that happened a couple weeks ago. And I think they really hide non-verified users.
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Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer·
My app auto-updated a few days ago and I feel like I'm not getting all the notifications that I should, especially comments. Like I'll click my own posts and see many comments that never appeared in my notification feed. Has anyone experienced something similar?
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Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer·
@InlandCaGuy When we moved from Los Angeles, treated it as a full reset and fire saled pretty much all our possessions. Had many sales to people who were clearly poor/homeless and thankful to get a deal. Every single one was nice, courteous, paid in cash no haggle. Waits for the "aNeCDoTe"
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daeveningglow@InlandCaGuy·
The most insane part of this ideology is the absolute delusion that some really poor person ended up with your bike. What happened is that a career criminal made money off your bike and then sold it to someone who saw a good deal online who may or may not be poor at all.
Lang Reynolds@LangReynolds

My bike was stolen out of my garage in Seattle a couple years ago so I went down to the nearest RV encampment, found it and took it back. Very eye opening to discuss this experience with a progressive friend of mine who said “I am ok with people like you’s bikes being stolen because we cannot provide affordable housing”

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Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer·
"From 1900 to 1950, Los Angeles was the top agricultural producing county in the US. From 1950 to present, Los Angeles was the top manufacturing producing county in the US," is one of my favorite party facts, for many reasons, but the unfathomably rapid industrial build due to the war is one of them. Witnessing Los Angeles through the 1900s would've been an amazing life to live.
Paul Graham@paulg

It slows down between 1890 and 1940 as industry concentrates in what is now the rust belt, then after World War II, bang, it shoots westward.

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Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer·
"From 1900 to 1950, Los Angeles was the top agricultural producing county in the US. From 1950 to present, Los Angeles was the producing manufacturing county in the US," is one of my favorite party facts, for many reasons, but the unfathomably rapid industrial build due to the war is one of them.
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