{"id":35,"date":"2008-11-15T20:29:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T01:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2008\/11\/15\/nie-guys-finish-last\/"},"modified":"2012-12-05T00:58:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T05:58:28","slug":"nie-guys-finish-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2008\/11\/15\/nie-guys-finish-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice guys finish last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whomever didn&#8217;t know that already? But knowing a fact without understanding the causes or implications can be pretty useless. So here is a summary of my wonderings of the last couple of weeks. For me to remember and you to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>All of this year I&#8217;ve persistently worked on one thing and have signed up to another. As a result I was able to take some risks, not needing to worry about what I&#8217;ll be doing in the next two years of my life.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided this Mr Nice Guy thing isn&#8217;t working, cracked some heads, and got what I wanted. And that got me thinking &#8211; what was the point of being nice to begin with?<\/p>\n<p>Shyness is a curse, and I&#8217;ll get into that some other time, but I want to say here that the curse of shyness doesn&#8217;t compel one to be nice. In fact the pain caused by being shy can just as well be channeled into being evil.<\/p>\n<p>So I took the opposite of what I am as a potential goal, and tried to define it. What <em>is<\/em> evil, fndamentally? I couldn&#8217;t come up with an answer. I talked to a smart guy who studied the topic in some detail, and he suggested everyone is evil, which I thought about and decided noone is evil. Evil is not a fundamental characteristic of a person, it&#8217;s just a poor means to describe something else.<\/p>\n<p>So if I don&#8217;t want to be nice, and there is no such thing as evil, what options do I have? For now &#8211; it&#8217;s still a mystery. But the few social norms I was still abiding by flew out the window recently, so if you didn&#8217;t like me before &#8211; beware, I just got worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whomever didn&#8217;t know that already? But knowing a fact without understanding the causes or implications can be pretty useless. So here is a summary of my wonderings of the last couple of weeks. For me to remember and you to enjoy. All of this year I&#8217;ve persistently worked on one thing and have signed up &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-andrew","4":"post-35","6":"format-standard","7":"category-opensource"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}