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diegocaleiro comments on May Monthly Bragging Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: diegocaleiro 06 May 2014 07:09:51AM 18 points [-]

I've moved to the place in the planet where after years of deliberation, I decided suits me best (and guess what Dan Gilbert, I still think that! My prospectoscope did not fail!)... , In less than four weeks here, I 1) Solved half my income problem by finding a hack in the writing for money system and being paid aprox 200 dollars per hour of writing/re-writing, for about 5 hours per month. That is, I can pay rent with one day of work. 2) I solved the Visa problem, you don't understand how valuable solving the Visa problem is if you are not a willing immigrant like a million people per year. 3) I got a scholarship, which can pay my life from 2015 to 2019 while giving me a prestigious PHD degree and save me loads of time to work saving the world on the side. 4) I'm living in a rationalist house with people, which was a dream of mine. I've met more and better some people in the rationalist community in the area, I've danced for 6 or more hours a week into trancendent bliss and merged with the universe.
And, to cherry top it all, I was just invited to be a TED fellow.
If life is a game, I basically won.

Comment author: Torello 07 May 2014 03:20:35AM 4 points [-]

Congrats on the recent winning streak.

Can you describe what kind of writing you do and how you acquired the position?