a lot of these sf slop striver discourse tweets embody a projection of someone's lack of something, clearly this guy lacked the judgement to hang around the right people as a child
The most underrated trait I've seen in high achievers: they have ZERO childhood friends.
As a kid, your friends are pre-determined by where you live or go to school.
That's why most of them are mediocre and you quickly outgrow them.
But as adults, you get to choose your friends.
The more ambitious you are, the more likely you are to seek a new, ambitious social circle.
That's why Marc Andreessen, Walt Disney, and Tim Cook all left their rural hometowns for NYC, LA, and San Francisco.
If you still regularly hang out with high school friends, you’re probably not ambitious enough.