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Why should you care about jj? Look, ethereal, balaeric Gothenburg indie from the 2010s may not be important in the grand scheme of things, but their strong hip hop influence was genuinely exciting at the time. When the great chill wave summer of 2009 crested, you definitely cared about jj’s otherworldly grooves and lil Wayne samples. Even if they never did reach the euphoric highs of Washed Out or even label mates The Tough Alliance.
Bringing Edinburgh into the mix definitely reinforces this take. "I want to live somewhere that's not total shit, but a bit shit... all the time"
Wait, wouldn't a trend towards micro-apartments and higher density make urban land more valuable? I suppose the trick is buying urban land in just the right place if things get more dense.
I'm a developer with an English degree from a liberal arts college and I do agree with the article on this point. When you're trying to dive into difficult literature –and learn how to analyze it in the first place– it's really, really helpful to have a professor leading you through it, and a room full of smart people discussing it. You can't just go fuck off to Bali with Ulysses and get anywhere near the same experience.
Coding is different. The only way to learn how to program is to program. Yeah mentors help a ton and speed things up but I think it's a lot more solitary of a journey.
Well this line of reasoning works beautifully for engineers, because solving the types of problems engineers love also HAPPENS to be extremely lucrative.
What if acting doesn't feel like work? Playing soccer? Hiking? It's extremely difficult to make money doing these things. "Follow your folly" career advice can work, or it can just make people feel terrible because they realize they're doing things they don't love because they can't make money doing the things they do love.