Missing nothing: it's a junky article of random facts adding up to nothing. The supposed understand life is pretty vanilla for silicon valley "better living through chemistry."
The real theme of the article was how social, outgoing, and successful this guy was, and how much this guy was liked by his friends and "friends." For some reason the WSJ wants to paint it with a patina of DRUGS.
I thought twice before submitting this, but I believe the article is an interesting one. To me story of Mr. Lee and Mr. Hsieh are a lifetime lessons on how not to allow fame and fortune to drag me down one-way street to the point of fatal self-destruction. I think I personally learnt from their stories and I think this article benefits HN society.
> He was a good guy, didn't hurt anyone, and was senselessly murdered in cold blood.
He had an affair with a married woman and spent his free time attending sex- and drug-fueled parties instead of at home with his two kids and wife. Yeah, he didn't deserve to die, but saying "he didn't hurt anyone" and was "senselessly" (as in, for absolutely no reason) murdered is a ridiculous take. Go read the comments on the Post article I linked to, and see what normal people (as in, not in the SV/VC ecochamber) think about all of this. Spoiler: largely unsympathetic to what they perceive as a rich, hedonistic "techbro" who met an untimely end.
What is the point of fuck you money if not to live a life where the judgement of others can’t touch you?
While the unwashed masses might be unsympathetic, the lifestyle enumerated isn’t that far off from your middle to upper class debauchery and coping mechanisms (affairs, recreational drug use, etc). Someone’s husband had their feelings hurt by their partner’s behavior and the death was still senseless.
> if not to live a life where the judgement of others can’t touch you?
Material resources only get you that if you are willing to distance yourself entirely from human intercourse, in which case money – whose only purpose is exchange – is not the right form of wealth.
Bob's personal life comes up because this story was originally spun as representing how bad San Francisco was, where a tech guy could be randomly murdered.
But it turns out that this wasn't the story at all. The guy led a rather dramatic life, and his murder wasn't random at all.
It's unfortunate that this leads to news outlets going out of their way to be salacious. It's not really much of an "apology" for the news outlets to try to correct their previous interpretation of the story. But it's also true that, sadly, many people will keep repeating a version of the story that affirms their preconceptions, and it's not entirely wrong to keep contradicting that.
This article heavily implies a lot of stuff it does not provide evidence for. Having recreational drugs in your system does not make you a member of an elite Hellfire Club of debauched aristocrats. He may have done all that stuff, I don't know. I'm just saying the level of "we're not saying he was one of those guys at the Eyes Wide Shut orgy, but we're not not saying that either" in this article is troublingly high.
>Known in wealthy circles as “The Lifestyle,” Lee, 43,a father of two, allegedly enjoyed the city’s underground party scene, as did Khazar Momeni, wife of a prominent plastic surgeon and sister of Nima Momeni.
>People familiar with the group said Lee and Khazar, 37, were sleeping together, and many feared he’d fallen into a dangerous lifestyle, surrounding himself with the wrong group of people.
>Lee was allegedly confronted by Nima about the hard-partying and his sister’s involvement in an argument erupting in the early hours of April 4 when Lee was stabbed multiple times, prosecutors said.
"The Lifestyle" refers to the scene to which he belonged, not the man himself, btw (at least according to another article).
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 81.8 ms ] threadEdit: I scoured the corners of the tubes to produce this for you~
https://archive.today/WICdT
Edit 2: @asah, 100% agree, it was a letdown. Yet I always wanna turn over the stone.. >..<
Still a trash article.
He had an affair with a married woman and spent his free time attending sex- and drug-fueled parties instead of at home with his two kids and wife. Yeah, he didn't deserve to die, but saying "he didn't hurt anyone" and was "senselessly" (as in, for absolutely no reason) murdered is a ridiculous take. Go read the comments on the Post article I linked to, and see what normal people (as in, not in the SV/VC ecochamber) think about all of this. Spoiler: largely unsympathetic to what they perceive as a rich, hedonistic "techbro" who met an untimely end.
While the unwashed masses might be unsympathetic, the lifestyle enumerated isn’t that far off from your middle to upper class debauchery and coping mechanisms (affairs, recreational drug use, etc). Someone’s husband had their feelings hurt by their partner’s behavior and the death was still senseless.
There isn’t one.
> if not to live a life where the judgement of others can’t touch you?
Material resources only get you that if you are willing to distance yourself entirely from human intercourse, in which case money – whose only purpose is exchange – is not the right form of wealth.
But it turns out that this wasn't the story at all. The guy led a rather dramatic life, and his murder wasn't random at all.
It's unfortunate that this leads to news outlets going out of their way to be salacious. It's not really much of an "apology" for the news outlets to try to correct their previous interpretation of the story. But it's also true that, sadly, many people will keep repeating a version of the story that affirms their preconceptions, and it's not entirely wrong to keep contradicting that.
Where did you read that??
>Known in wealthy circles as “The Lifestyle,” Lee, 43,a father of two, allegedly enjoyed the city’s underground party scene, as did Khazar Momeni, wife of a prominent plastic surgeon and sister of Nima Momeni.
>People familiar with the group said Lee and Khazar, 37, were sleeping together, and many feared he’d fallen into a dangerous lifestyle, surrounding himself with the wrong group of people.
>Lee was allegedly confronted by Nima about the hard-partying and his sister’s involvement in an argument erupting in the early hours of April 4 when Lee was stabbed multiple times, prosecutors said.
"The Lifestyle" refers to the scene to which he belonged, not the man himself, btw (at least according to another article).