Will Manidis: Bay Area cargo-culted raw effort into soulless golems
floguo · x · 2026-11-10
Will Manidis argues the most successful people have endless energy and live intensely yet effortlessly across work and life — and mocks Bay Area AI folks for cargo-culting this into soulless automo-elon golems. He cites J.P. Morgan's yacht club cup wins, Rockefeller's trotter races, and Ellison's flying sailboats as proof that real winners turn effort into joy rather than martyrdom pastiche. floguo endorses the take.
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