I hate you, and I hate myself even more.

Basically luck, survivorship bias. See Morgan Housel's Psychology of Money book, and this passage about luck and risk in it:

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-psychology-of-mon...

This is one of my favorite articles on the subject of wealth :)

Now if only the guy with the $100 million had enough survivor's guilt to give me $1 million lol

Edit: looks like my joke failed

Haha well are you're working on anything interesting?

Ha, you sparked some thought in me, going a bit off-topic here though :)

I'd love to see some non-profit R+D department for social media. And I wonder what's the closest thing to that existing right now.

On the science side there are dry studies, either relatively tiny or looking at what is there.

On the practical side there are technical people fighting for privacy, decentralization and against censorship, but with little feel or innovation beyond that.

No one does proper product research.

I wrote a concept for a curation tool in my studies, but it didn't really fit the program and I wonder where it could fit after all. Now I'm just earning money as a product manager and can't afford not to.

Nope. I'm just a corporate peon.

Just curious - do you invest in startups?

Yeah it's enjoyable, there's really no need for anyone to have this much money.

well done - how do you spend your time now?

Building new stuff, learning a lot, arguing on HN, honestly the same as before haha

What are you learning if I may ask? And building?

There is the trifecta of development, design, and business. Usually someone is only good at one of those things. I want to see what it's like to be good at all 3, and see if I can build a very valuable company as a single founder/employee, by leveraging automation as much as possible. Even if I can't, I'm sure I'll find a bunch of problems for which I can create a new startup to solve.

Not OP but just wanted to answer haha

Learning some new programming languages like Rust, might build some tools for myself, we'll see though.