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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Golden Mean is a philosophy of Aristotel who said that all things have a golden mean (or balance) where existence is optimal.

    Basically avoiding any sort of extremism will always be the most efficient path because of uncertainty and imperfection of our existence.

    He mostly applied it to virtues of living like justice or wisdom. Sure you can close yourself off and study non-stop or fight all of the injustice in the world without sleep but this is not sustainble and diminishing returns reaches a point where the energy input is no longer returning positive results or even decreasing the overall output.

    Imo this applies to basically everything including politics. Because political systems are so complex (and people are so complex) it’s imposible to control the systwm without leaving space for imperfection. So you can be a socialist but you still need to respect some individual freedoms, you can be a libertarian but you still have to admit that some things need to be forbidden for smooth sailing basically.








  • Yes, eventually but even before that 1 senior accountant with AI assistant will take a position of 2, 5 or 10 accountants. That’ll really collapse accountant market and you shouldn’t get into it now. As a junior you will most certainly struggle. We actually already see this in software development.

    Not to mention effects of AI in industries near accounting like better deterministic software and data pipelines.