By alisey
> Money is like gas in the car — you need to pay attention or you’ll end up on the side of the road — but a well-lived life is not a tour of gas stations!
See, he acknowledges the importance of money. But once your basic needs are met, you can start discovering what matters to you. Music and creating your programming language are just to points in a huge space of things you could potentially enjoy. There are many jobs that, even though they don’t sound sexy, allow you to explore this space and gravitate to things you like. The choice is not always between being a slave or dying from starvation.
Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10441425
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