A difference between American self-help, and my personal motivation is American self-help raises status of self. Mark Mason says, "Statistically, a normal person is physically unhealthy, emotionally anxious and financially in debt, fuck being normal" as a way to motivate you to do your own thing. This sounds horrific to me, in that I believe people have altruistically and greedily, both improved human lives, I am on this planet to help improve the general livelihood of others too, why else am I born in privilege, given this opportunity. This might involve short term getting rich so I can allocate capital efficiently to causes I think are good. But that's the subtle difference.
curr: riscv, next: TBD :) grad cs @ bu