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I'm gonna try to be altruistic and share some knowledge.
I do this because I wish success to all of you. We're in this together.
There are plenty of professions and vocations. You can be an athlete and have the ethos to talk about how to make it in that world, give your two cents to aspiring ones. You can be a teacher and explain how to get your message across to kids or whatever.
This thread is for young aspiring entrepreneurs who haven’t finished high school or are starting college.
In my case, I’m a 20-year-old student, so I am young, but for some of you I probably have an “unc” status. I've been browsing these forums since I was 15, being as lost as many of you reading this. Despite that, I can safely say I'm on the right path, and unless something fucked up happens to me, I'm gonna be successful. I’m studying business in my country, doing well, got a few nice internships, that’s it. I'm not fucking Steve Jobs dropping out and making it big at 20, but I feel like I'm doing well and punching above my weight, cause I was born in Argentina and raised in Uruguay. I'm enjoying life, watching films, reading books, getting good grades, and forming a very strong network with interesting individuals who also see me as interesting. I found a nice internship in Silicon Valley this winter. I also founded a successful local esports team when I was 14. I have $125k, which ain’t much, but it’s something. That’s my "ethos." So take my message as you will.
In business, one can be an incumbent, stable entrepreneur. Picture a suit-and-tie Wharton MBA who may work at McKinsey or whatever. In that line of work, call it what you will, you need to be stable. You don’t need to be disruptive — it’s discouraged. You just need to know your business frameworks, math, finance, make connections, play politics, and that’s it. It’s just not fumbling. Having your estate grow. It’s the equivalent of the noble class you may recall from high school history lessons. Folks who look good, have a strong bloodline, their minds work fine, no short circuits. They’re just stable members of the elites who studied at the best schools. They need to exploit their core and perhaps find a new core, and they usually hire young intrapreneur cucks who try to find alternatives to prevent entropy from tearing them down. By the way, that’s basically what I’m doing this winter in my internship, where I was hired by a rich person to make a report of companies in the Valley for them to tropicalize in Argentina. But that guy doesn’t move a muscle. He’s had money for plenty of generations working in agriculture and wants to pivot to tech.
Well, I’m not like that, and I know I’m smart, but I’m too schizo to be a fucking Duke MBA rationalist consultant. I don’t fit into any institution. Odds are you’re like me if you’re here and into business.
So what’s in it for us?
Startups. Being the underdog. Building, scaling, and exiting. That’s the business for us.
When you’re a startup founder, your biggest asset is innovation, finding new cores, tearing down “the man” above who has bureaucracy and political correctness holding them back from doing cool shit. Being a troublemaker, a misfit, an artist is a GOOD THING here. One of the few cases where that’s exactly what you should be — and VCs dig the fuck out of that.
So what would I advise you to do so far?
1. Make channels. Start with LinkedIn
You literally don’t lose anything. Make your LinkedIn account NOW. If you haven’t, close the thread. You’re a minor? Better. Make one anyway and put your high school and Boy Scouts badges. IDGAF. Just make one.
You know why I like LinkedIn?
Many reasons.
First of all, it’s data visualization for your career and for yourself. Let me explain.
When you see your LinkedIn, you see who you are professionally and your mind adapts to that. You see the accolades you’ve made, from a small certificate to your undergrad, to your job experience, to volunteering, to the languages you speak. You see in a snapshot all the stuff you did. And it’s organized. You get a feel of who you are. It’s like a Pinterest board. It’s really, really cool.
Second and most importantly, you can connect with older people doing your same major or further down your career path so you can see what they’re doing — ultimately where you’re heading. You can follow voices in your industry so you get familiarized with their lingo, you can speak their code. That really helped me.
In short, do the following things:
I found 4 internships for this summer thanks to my LinkedIn. They contacted me and I chose between them: my city government, Raízen (Shell in Argentina), an aluminum mine, and finally the one I chose, which included a paid trip to San Francisco.
But don’t treat it as it’s gonna do something beyond that. It’s still smoke and mirrors and posting too much is super cringe. I just update when I accomplish something.
2. Eventually figure out industries you’re gonna be the best at
You should be this:
Example:
For primary skill I’d say tech. I’m alright with programming, UX/UI design, etc. I’m fluent in that. That by itself just makes me a wageslave dev competing with jeets who stare at their screen 20 hours a day. But that + business is good. Still not enough IMO.
My secondary skill is art. It’s flair. It’s the cherry on top. It’s the soul. My artistic taste will make the difference. I have VERY good conceptualization and perception skills and I attribute that to consuming art very often. You’ve got to find what you love, and if you do what you love you’ll be passionate, and that’s gonna make all the difference. If you love sports, that’s your secondary skill/interest/vocation. You need to somehow make it overlap with your primary skill, and of course, make business out of it.
Then finally, the industry. This is what I’m struggling with. The industry I work in must overlap with the other stuff I mentioned, and I really don’t know yet what it’s gonna be for me. So my advice is: do what I’m doing. Do plenty of shit, and eventually something will click. If you like it, do it. If you don’t, keep looking and don’t settle.
The synergy of these things is what’s gonna make you dangerous.
So study business. By study I don’t necessarily mean college (you could, and it’s encouraged, college CAN be great if the conditions are right), but just study. Read books. Immerse yourself. Pay attention. That’s studying.
Secondly, study a primary skill. Could be design, law, finance, whatever. Be good at something else, because there’s a gazillion “oh I know business” people who are just grains of sand in a desert doing consulting. The dangerous part is to know both skills.
And finally, have some passion, flair, the cherry on top. Can be anything: speaking 5 languages, philosophy, art, math. Could even be blackpill theory if you’re that passionate about it — like Darwinism and stuff. Do stuff. Have fun. Learn stuff. I don’t give a fuck. Anything goes here. This is more trivial, more aesthetic. For Steve Jobs, it was Eastern philosophy / Buddhism.
Then apply all of the above in an industry that overlaps.
That’s my advice and what I’m kinda doing. We’ll see if I’m successful or just talking.
3. You're by yourself and no one owes you anything
This is the biggest problem with some of you. You’re so fucking entitled. No one will ever lift a finger for you. You’re by yourself. Not even your parents. I’d say ESPECIALLY your parents. Odds are your parents may love you, but a subconscious part of them doesn’t want you to surpass them.
Also know, as Steve Jobs said: everything you see around you was made by someone not smarter than you. You can mold the world around you and do anything if you really care and put your mind to it.
The thing is, many of you are waiting for stuff to happen instead of doing anything. And complaining because you’re stuck rotting. No wonder.
Also think about it: if you’re a sub-5, ugly, short, etc., the best way to transcend is to build something bigger than yourself.
Try to take agency and do stuff, put yourself in situations. Try new hobbies. “Why not try it all if you’ll only remember it once?” Travel too. Take psychedelics responsibly if you want.
You like blackpill? Dude, get into Darwinism. Read the authors behind it. Think about what’s in your mind and study it. Maybe study medicine and do a fellowship in the Galápagos to study birds. Do whatever the fuck you want, but live authentically to yourself. You are going to die eventually, so you might as well do what you want. And from passion, when you love what you do, great stuff will come from there. Because that resides in your spirit, in what Ortega y Gasset calls the “superior mind.” You’re not forcing yourself to learn something. You want to. When you read “scientific blackpill” articles in the Incel Wiki, you’re not reading those because your school forced you to. You are genuinely interested. So just follow the threads of your mind and see where they go.
4. “Focus on the donut, not the hole”
Sometimes you may not have anything to do in a day. Don’t try to solve your entire life in a day. Sometimes it’s better to keep it simple: go to the gym + do your chores. That’s a net positive day. Keep stacking net positive days instead of trying to solve your entire life in a day, cause you WON’T. You’ll be frustrated, have a shitty day, and end up gooning and crying yourself to sleep. Try to keep it real and slowly scale. There are no shortcuts. I know that's not what David Lynch meant but whatever.
So yeah that’s all, hope it was helpful to some of you. And sorry if it's scattered, I'm figuring things out myself too.
I do this because I wish success to all of you. We're in this together.
There are plenty of professions and vocations. You can be an athlete and have the ethos to talk about how to make it in that world, give your two cents to aspiring ones. You can be a teacher and explain how to get your message across to kids or whatever.
This thread is for young aspiring entrepreneurs who haven’t finished high school or are starting college.
In my case, I’m a 20-year-old student, so I am young, but for some of you I probably have an “unc” status. I've been browsing these forums since I was 15, being as lost as many of you reading this. Despite that, I can safely say I'm on the right path, and unless something fucked up happens to me, I'm gonna be successful. I’m studying business in my country, doing well, got a few nice internships, that’s it. I'm not fucking Steve Jobs dropping out and making it big at 20, but I feel like I'm doing well and punching above my weight, cause I was born in Argentina and raised in Uruguay. I'm enjoying life, watching films, reading books, getting good grades, and forming a very strong network with interesting individuals who also see me as interesting. I found a nice internship in Silicon Valley this winter. I also founded a successful local esports team when I was 14. I have $125k, which ain’t much, but it’s something. That’s my "ethos." So take my message as you will.
In business, one can be an incumbent, stable entrepreneur. Picture a suit-and-tie Wharton MBA who may work at McKinsey or whatever. In that line of work, call it what you will, you need to be stable. You don’t need to be disruptive — it’s discouraged. You just need to know your business frameworks, math, finance, make connections, play politics, and that’s it. It’s just not fumbling. Having your estate grow. It’s the equivalent of the noble class you may recall from high school history lessons. Folks who look good, have a strong bloodline, their minds work fine, no short circuits. They’re just stable members of the elites who studied at the best schools. They need to exploit their core and perhaps find a new core, and they usually hire young intrapreneur cucks who try to find alternatives to prevent entropy from tearing them down. By the way, that’s basically what I’m doing this winter in my internship, where I was hired by a rich person to make a report of companies in the Valley for them to tropicalize in Argentina. But that guy doesn’t move a muscle. He’s had money for plenty of generations working in agriculture and wants to pivot to tech.
Well, I’m not like that, and I know I’m smart, but I’m too schizo to be a fucking Duke MBA rationalist consultant. I don’t fit into any institution. Odds are you’re like me if you’re here and into business.
So what’s in it for us?
Startups. Being the underdog. Building, scaling, and exiting. That’s the business for us.
When you’re a startup founder, your biggest asset is innovation, finding new cores, tearing down “the man” above who has bureaucracy and political correctness holding them back from doing cool shit. Being a troublemaker, a misfit, an artist is a GOOD THING here. One of the few cases where that’s exactly what you should be — and VCs dig the fuck out of that.
So what would I advise you to do so far?
1. Make channels. Start with LinkedIn
You literally don’t lose anything. Make your LinkedIn account NOW. If you haven’t, close the thread. You’re a minor? Better. Make one anyway and put your high school and Boy Scouts badges. IDGAF. Just make one.
You know why I like LinkedIn?
Many reasons.
First of all, it’s data visualization for your career and for yourself. Let me explain.
When you see your LinkedIn, you see who you are professionally and your mind adapts to that. You see the accolades you’ve made, from a small certificate to your undergrad, to your job experience, to volunteering, to the languages you speak. You see in a snapshot all the stuff you did. And it’s organized. You get a feel of who you are. It’s like a Pinterest board. It’s really, really cool.
Second and most importantly, you can connect with older people doing your same major or further down your career path so you can see what they’re doing — ultimately where you’re heading. You can follow voices in your industry so you get familiarized with their lingo, you can speak their code. That really helped me.
In short, do the following things:
- Make the account
- Get a rock solid profile picture
- Do free/cheap courses from your industry (I’m leaning tech, so I did courses related to that). You can do Harvard’s CS50 — it has the shiny Harvard badge and you actually learn programming. I mean, I’d take it seriously. Do whatever as long as it’s something. No excuses, most courses are open for minors. Maybe do summer school. Do whatever the hell you want if you have the opportunity. Seize them.
- Get some job experience, or just lie. Say you work for your dad or your uncle or someone who has something, even if it sucks. You can make the LinkedIn page for it to look credible and professional. Maybe make up a fake startup and buy the domain and just lie. It’s better than nothing. Personally, before I got my job I had a fake internship that never happened. It’s really better than nothing.
- Just overall make a decent profile. I can help you if you PM me. I’m glad to do it and I won’t dox you dw.
- Follow people in your industry, voices, friends in college who are doing the same major and are older so you get a hang of where they’re heading towards, etc.
I found 4 internships for this summer thanks to my LinkedIn. They contacted me and I chose between them: my city government, Raízen (Shell in Argentina), an aluminum mine, and finally the one I chose, which included a paid trip to San Francisco.
But don’t treat it as it’s gonna do something beyond that. It’s still smoke and mirrors and posting too much is super cringe. I just update when I accomplish something.
2. Eventually figure out industries you’re gonna be the best at
You should be this:
- Core: Business (non-negotiable): You need to become great in business. College or not. You need to know business, be a business-minded person. Otherwise you’re done for.
- Primary Skill: ???
- Secondary Skills (flair/passion): ???
- Industry: ??? (The arena where you apply the above)
Example:
For primary skill I’d say tech. I’m alright with programming, UX/UI design, etc. I’m fluent in that. That by itself just makes me a wageslave dev competing with jeets who stare at their screen 20 hours a day. But that + business is good. Still not enough IMO.
My secondary skill is art. It’s flair. It’s the cherry on top. It’s the soul. My artistic taste will make the difference. I have VERY good conceptualization and perception skills and I attribute that to consuming art very often. You’ve got to find what you love, and if you do what you love you’ll be passionate, and that’s gonna make all the difference. If you love sports, that’s your secondary skill/interest/vocation. You need to somehow make it overlap with your primary skill, and of course, make business out of it.
Then finally, the industry. This is what I’m struggling with. The industry I work in must overlap with the other stuff I mentioned, and I really don’t know yet what it’s gonna be for me. So my advice is: do what I’m doing. Do plenty of shit, and eventually something will click. If you like it, do it. If you don’t, keep looking and don’t settle.
The synergy of these things is what’s gonna make you dangerous.
So study business. By study I don’t necessarily mean college (you could, and it’s encouraged, college CAN be great if the conditions are right), but just study. Read books. Immerse yourself. Pay attention. That’s studying.
Secondly, study a primary skill. Could be design, law, finance, whatever. Be good at something else, because there’s a gazillion “oh I know business” people who are just grains of sand in a desert doing consulting. The dangerous part is to know both skills.
And finally, have some passion, flair, the cherry on top. Can be anything: speaking 5 languages, philosophy, art, math. Could even be blackpill theory if you’re that passionate about it — like Darwinism and stuff. Do stuff. Have fun. Learn stuff. I don’t give a fuck. Anything goes here. This is more trivial, more aesthetic. For Steve Jobs, it was Eastern philosophy / Buddhism.
Then apply all of the above in an industry that overlaps.
That’s my advice and what I’m kinda doing. We’ll see if I’m successful or just talking.
3. You're by yourself and no one owes you anything
This is the biggest problem with some of you. You’re so fucking entitled. No one will ever lift a finger for you. You’re by yourself. Not even your parents. I’d say ESPECIALLY your parents. Odds are your parents may love you, but a subconscious part of them doesn’t want you to surpass them.
Also know, as Steve Jobs said: everything you see around you was made by someone not smarter than you. You can mold the world around you and do anything if you really care and put your mind to it.
The thing is, many of you are waiting for stuff to happen instead of doing anything. And complaining because you’re stuck rotting. No wonder.
Also think about it: if you’re a sub-5, ugly, short, etc., the best way to transcend is to build something bigger than yourself.
- It’s the best coping mechanism out there, trust me, it’s like art, it’s beautiful in a way that reason can’t explain.
- You will get laid for sure even if you look like shit.
- You will make money. And newsflash, you live under capitalism.
Try to take agency and do stuff, put yourself in situations. Try new hobbies. “Why not try it all if you’ll only remember it once?” Travel too. Take psychedelics responsibly if you want.
You like blackpill? Dude, get into Darwinism. Read the authors behind it. Think about what’s in your mind and study it. Maybe study medicine and do a fellowship in the Galápagos to study birds. Do whatever the fuck you want, but live authentically to yourself. You are going to die eventually, so you might as well do what you want. And from passion, when you love what you do, great stuff will come from there. Because that resides in your spirit, in what Ortega y Gasset calls the “superior mind.” You’re not forcing yourself to learn something. You want to. When you read “scientific blackpill” articles in the Incel Wiki, you’re not reading those because your school forced you to. You are genuinely interested. So just follow the threads of your mind and see where they go.
4. “Focus on the donut, not the hole”
Sometimes you may not have anything to do in a day. Don’t try to solve your entire life in a day. Sometimes it’s better to keep it simple: go to the gym + do your chores. That’s a net positive day. Keep stacking net positive days instead of trying to solve your entire life in a day, cause you WON’T. You’ll be frustrated, have a shitty day, and end up gooning and crying yourself to sleep. Try to keep it real and slowly scale. There are no shortcuts. I know that's not what David Lynch meant but whatever.
So yeah that’s all, hope it was helpful to some of you. And sorry if it's scattered, I'm figuring things out myself too.
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