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#22 - Rantcast - How I Spent Lockdown, Investments, Nietzsche, Promotions, Videogames?


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In today's Rantcast, I discuss:

- Police stopping foreign cars

- Spending lockdown at the family house instead of a small apartment

- Finally having my uni friends in the same city but then... it's forbidden to meet

- Working from home sounded good at first, but in the end not really

- How working from home is different during Covid-19 than usually

- The police having to handle people rushing to McDonald's drive ins

- Lack of cheap sit-down food places to meet your friends 

- Using videogames to share time with your friends during lockdown

- Camaraderie and shared activities, why the videogame itself doesn't matter

- Nobody wants to hike

- Playing Doom, and why I can't enjoy solo videogames anymore

- How I now feel guilty when watching Netflix series

- Lockdown and being idle can kill creativity

- Videogames and dopamine, how it's killing your drive by tricking your brain into believing you're achieving

- Removing fake dopamine to increase discipline

- Brain selecting the easiest path to dopamine, then rationalizing the decision

- Good habits condition you into avoiding wasteful activities

- Why not watching Netflix is not "missing out"

- Marcus Aurelius straightforward stoicism, and Nietzsche's convoluted writing

- Kaufmann's Portable Nietzsche and Basic Writings of Nietzsche

- Marcus Aurelius against individualism

- Good workouts without gyms, bodyweight exercise variations, etc.

- Belgians don't want lockdown to end (many are happy to be paid doing nothing during Coronavirus)

- Deconfinment and hospital intensive care capacity

- How threatening to resign for a promotion is a good strategy that still can backfire in some companies

- And more

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