I live my life with same principle, I fuck around the primary earning source. when I was too confortable working in pune, I switched tried IT sector in pune being mech engg. then when I was too confortable with Pune city I fucked around country got job in Abu dhabi, after 3 yrs in abu dhabi went to Dubai for more salary. disnt liked it came back to abu dhabi where i preferred peace and growth.
so here i wws fucking around which helped me to gather diverse work exp and improve my primary income.
now where things get interesting is my investing style, there i tried to stay basic. basic with index funds, gold etfs, bought it consistently, bought more during drawdown sometimes in nifty sometimes in gold sometimes in mid and small cap active mutual funds. never took personal loan, unnecessary loan, never kept my money ill-liquid which helped me to take chances and fuck up with switches jobs. comparatively less leveraged lifestyle, minimal pphysical assets which helped me fuck around cities.
once I have decent savings which starts growing at 8-10% combined rate before doller appreecuation, I will start fucking around investing that too with just 5-10% exposure to fuck up investings like bitcoin or US non tech index or companies.
Mostly in your camp. I try things alone now that during the long time in corporate was not possible. More risky, and exciting.
I’m having troubles articulating defense against a different demon or angel that is whispering:
- “Do more work, really? You think all these arguments should lead us to self-stress now, as opposed to social stress? This is time to relax. Do you! Eat pray love, and fuck a lot. The world is changing largely beyond your control. Don’t spend it all at once, but do spend!”
That voice is strongest since youth. Or maybe ever.
This is a great kick in the pants. And I love the honesty about choosing Netflix over the new thing ,we’ve all been there.
But here’s what I’d add, from a different kind of life: for some of us, “fucking around” isn’t just about overcoming inertia or fear of the unknown. It’s about unlearning a deeper reflex,the one that says your job is to edit yourself down to fit the room, to make yourself easy to work with, to be the version people prefer.
When you’ve spent decades being praised for self‑erasure, taking a shot feels less like adventure and more like disobedience. The “basic” you have to do first isn’t experimenting with AI or side projects. It’s giving yourself permission to want something at all , out loud, without the softening smile.
So yes: fuck around while you still can. But also notice if your version of “fucking around” is still a performance. The real agency starts when you stop performing for anyone else.
I think a lot of reading advice is bullshit. Whether you should read what you should read, how you should read, and when you should read are all deeply personal questions that you are best placed to answer. If you want to read, pick up some book about a topic you enjoy and start from there. That's it. That's all the reading advice you need.
being able to roll with the punches no matter what life throws at you is the BEST skill anyone could ever adapt! I really enjoyed this perspective. It was serious and casual all at the same time, thank you for writing it!
amazing perspective Bhuvam.
I live my life with same principle, I fuck around the primary earning source. when I was too confortable working in pune, I switched tried IT sector in pune being mech engg. then when I was too confortable with Pune city I fucked around country got job in Abu dhabi, after 3 yrs in abu dhabi went to Dubai for more salary. disnt liked it came back to abu dhabi where i preferred peace and growth.
so here i wws fucking around which helped me to gather diverse work exp and improve my primary income.
now where things get interesting is my investing style, there i tried to stay basic. basic with index funds, gold etfs, bought it consistently, bought more during drawdown sometimes in nifty sometimes in gold sometimes in mid and small cap active mutual funds. never took personal loan, unnecessary loan, never kept my money ill-liquid which helped me to take chances and fuck up with switches jobs. comparatively less leveraged lifestyle, minimal pphysical assets which helped me fuck around cities.
once I have decent savings which starts growing at 8-10% combined rate before doller appreecuation, I will start fucking around investing that too with just 5-10% exposure to fuck up investings like bitcoin or US non tech index or companies.
Mostly in your camp. I try things alone now that during the long time in corporate was not possible. More risky, and exciting.
I’m having troubles articulating defense against a different demon or angel that is whispering:
- “Do more work, really? You think all these arguments should lead us to self-stress now, as opposed to social stress? This is time to relax. Do you! Eat pray love, and fuck a lot. The world is changing largely beyond your control. Don’t spend it all at once, but do spend!”
That voice is strongest since youth. Or maybe ever.
This is a great kick in the pants. And I love the honesty about choosing Netflix over the new thing ,we’ve all been there.
But here’s what I’d add, from a different kind of life: for some of us, “fucking around” isn’t just about overcoming inertia or fear of the unknown. It’s about unlearning a deeper reflex,the one that says your job is to edit yourself down to fit the room, to make yourself easy to work with, to be the version people prefer.
When you’ve spent decades being praised for self‑erasure, taking a shot feels less like adventure and more like disobedience. The “basic” you have to do first isn’t experimenting with AI or side projects. It’s giving yourself permission to want something at all , out loud, without the softening smile.
So yes: fuck around while you still can. But also notice if your version of “fucking around” is still a performance. The real agency starts when you stop performing for anyone else.
I wrote about the cost of that here:
https://substack.com/@leenadalal26/note/p-195415813?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=77j4p
So today’s theme on Substack is everyone saying, 5 pages a day, 25 pages a day etc. etc. does reading Substack count? Or does it have to be a book?
I think a lot of reading advice is bullshit. Whether you should read what you should read, how you should read, and when you should read are all deeply personal questions that you are best placed to answer. If you want to read, pick up some book about a topic you enjoy and start from there. That's it. That's all the reading advice you need.
Worth a punt.
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before it's too late
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being able to roll with the punches no matter what life throws at you is the BEST skill anyone could ever adapt! I really enjoyed this perspective. It was serious and casual all at the same time, thank you for writing it!