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Everything irritates me lately, but this worldview especially irritates me. It is only possible to hold this worldview if you measure [quality of life] by [availability of material goods]. This is not a functional way to measure that because it conflates inner life with outer life. What this means is that material conditions do not result in quality of life by themselves. If you don't understand what I mean by that, Imagine that you have a big mouthful of dog shit. What is your quality of life? Are you having a good time or not? Now imagine that you are a fly. Are you having a good time now? Do you see how something that is very bad for you is very good for the fly? It's the same material condition. It's happening to a very different being. It's a very different quality of life. Everybody has a smartphone. We get packages delivered by drones. AI writes essays for us. Amazon delivers everything you need to live in 2 days. Material conditions are great, but everyone is miserable. Why would that be? According to taoki, it's your fault. You chose to be miserable. It is your brain or your mind or your choices making misery out of a good thing. After all, look how many Amazon deliveries you get! Look how many flavors of Doritos you can choose from! Life is good! But for someone like me, wealth doesn't do much at all for my quality of life. It definitely does something! I am by far richer than I have ever been, and I prefer it this way. But it doesn't solve my biggest problems, and if you zoom out far enough, it becomes clear that the availability of wealth is a major cause of my biggest problems. It is not a secret that I do not like immigration from africa, india, South and Central america, and other such places. I consider it my biggest problem. Would all of that be happening without such availability of wealth? Without the technology? The airplanes? The computers? The money that can be transferred from phone to phone in an instant? Of course not. In any time before we had all of those things, millions of Indians or Africans coming to your country would be met by the national Army. I saw my world changing starting in the 2000s. The problems we have today were evident back then, but I didn't suspect they would get this bad. In the last 20 years, I have seen everything I value and everything that makes sense to me be replaced by something crude, inferior, dangerous, dirty, unwelcome, hostile, threatening. Instead of local families having Springtime events in the streets, Muslims gather shirtless and slap their chests in a war display. Instead of a corporate culture that values performance, myself and everybody like me is turned away by the job market in favor of foreign races, alternative sexualities, and women who may or may not be competent. Who cares? They're women. Music is gone. Culture is gone. Movies are worse than ever. Because we live in the "BEST OF ALL TIMES," (according to taoki), there is nothing left for me to belong to. Especially not where I grew up, or in any of the places that people usually move to from there. I could not deal with how uncomfortable that made me, so I ran away. I made a lot of money and I bought a big beautiful house in the middle of nowhere. The house is just about perfect (except for the repairs) and the view is so nice I unconsciously stare at it every day to recharge my battery. It's a gem, and I'm lucky to have it. But every day, I wake up and I remember that I am here because I could not be where I wanted to be, because where I wanted to be is gone. It's having its "BEST OF TIMES." There are naked tribal people in the Amazon who are happier than me because they know what to do and where to go and who their friends are. They don't have to think about it. Watch out for people who think that life is good because there is a lot of stuff. Sometimes that means other values have not even occurred to them.

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Yesterday was my last day at Riot Games. It’s been 3 years since I dropped out and joined the company. And despite the way my relationship with Riot ended, this has been the best learning experience I could have asked for. I had the chance to work with an amazing, passionate group of people, and count it among my many blessings. I was fired. I did not leave, and I was not laid off. I’m not going to come on here and pretend otherwise. They flat out fired me, and offered me 15k to keep my mouth shut. Needless to say, I did not take them up on that. The official reason for my termination that I was given was about an Applied AI pitch deck I made. I had put it up as a website with a password protection on it before sharing the site with our execs. They are claiming that I broke confidentiality. While I highly doubt that this was the real reason, I’m not gonna open myself up to libel by saying here what I believe the real reason to be. There has been no proof that anyone outside of Riot has seen the pitch deck, and that the security measures I’ve taken were not enough. What is more absurd, however, is that our CEO and various other execs have read it, told me how much they enjoyed reading it, and further encouraged me to explore the concepts I’ve outlined in the deck. Zero mention of needing me to take it down. If this was the decision of a random middle manager up my chain of command, I would have found that a lot easier to accept. What broke me though was the fact that an exec who I viewed as a role model, one of two people that I shared the deck with originally, who explicitly told me to share it out further, he knew about my termination ahead of time. And he did nothing to stop it. I was sad. Then I was pissed. Then I was sad and pissed. Now though, all I feel is an overwhelming sense of freedom. Normally, posting something like this is a big no no, since it will kill your chances of ever working in corporate. Luckily for me, I have made the decision that I will never work corporate again. Riot, if you’re reading this, I have also made the decision to not legally pursue the case of wrongful termination. We’re cool. I’m taking today off. Tomorrow is my first day as an entrepreneur. This is a step that I’ve thought about taking for a while now, but could never bring myself to leave Riot for. In a twisted way, I’m grateful the decision’s been made for me. I have a few ideas on direction. I will not be raising money. And I cannot wait to build, truly build.

007 First Light could be a game for all Uncharted fans out there