The Manual #30 - Value Deception

BowTiedBull.eth - Read Pinned Tweet or NGMI @BowTiedBull

$50K a year for humanities degree with no job prospects? “Where do I sign up bro” $100 a year for updates from self made millionaires who have high accuracy and could even hire you? “Nah man sell out, too expensive” And people wonder why they fail.

Luke Tiller ⬣ HEX.COM @stakerclass

@BowTiedBull Humans 😂 Let‘s spend $20k more on a car that‘s a guaranteed loss. Nah dude I won‘t invest $5k bc that seems risky, could lose money.

I’ve had these two tweets saved for a while. It’s amazing what people will do to not justify an investment in themselves.

I see this time and time again. Many people are willing to spend money on expensive designer clothing, cars, new gadgets and a lot more other crap. But won’t spend the same money on things that could bring up their own value.

It’s ok to buy a nice car, designer top or new phone. However it needs to go the other way too. Investing in yourself is even more important and can make you more valuable as a person.

We live in a world where you earn money and respect based on what value you can bring to others.

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Link Lowdown

A collection of links to stuff I think are worth sharing.

Coffee — A tiny time tracker for your next big project.

Mona & Hubot Sans — Two awesome open source variable fonts from Github.

TinyWow — A set of tools that can do anything from convert files to remove backgrounds from images.

ImprovMX — Create email aliases. A good way to manage multiple emails and spam.

Magician — A pretty wild AI tool for Figma.

Intentionally making close friends — An interesting post and Hacker News thread. I’m fortunate enough to have quite a few close friends but something that stuck out to me is that friendships are rarely 50/50 and you shouldn’t be upset about that. Sometimes that’s just how it is and it doesn’t mean you should throw away people you have fun with.

SigmaOS — A new browser. Looks pretty interesting. There seems to be this movement to browsers almost acting like an OS, you do everything in them.