[sakopov]

Having gone through a "reboot" myself, I've run into quite a few people in the tech industry seeking some kind of change in life. I don't see the same trend with friends and acquaintances working in other industries. I think this is very telling. Hell, I did a Crater Lake circumnavigation trip early this year with a group of 7. Coincidentally, all-in-all we had 4 software engineers and 1 mechanical engineer in the group and all confessed that they felt like they got off course somewhere. (2 of the 5 were prepping to through-hike the PCT!)

Being an engineer myself, I've always loved what i do, but I found that I felt infinitely better when i was disconnected from the tech. It's almost like being blindly in love with someone who hurts you. So for my "reboot" i quit my job, sold everything and started doing things that are completely out of my comfort zone like long distance backpacking trips, going into the nature, camping, paragliding, kayaking. As a consequence, I've dropped weight and become healthier by simply being outside more. Things like healthy diet and exercise didn't seem like impossible chores but very natural habits to transitions to.

So take this with a grain of salt, but when someone who tries to change their life is telling me that they want to sit in 4 walls and watch Netflix more, or get an android app that monitors their sleep, or that they want to try and do more daily coding, i realize that they have no idea what they're doing.

[akg_67]

IMO, the problem still remains even after reboot or reset. You are still hamster on a wheel. You might decide that you are drifting off course and course correct through reboot/reset sooner and later you will drift again, course correct again, and keep repeating the cycle.

You can't keep doing the same things and expect results to be different. You need to look inward and see what is causing the drift.

Last night, I watched an interesting talk by Guy Spier, a value investor. I was expecting the talk to be focus on value investing, it turned out be much more on making life choices, changes and gaining wisdom.

Guy Spier: "The Education of a Value Investor" | Talks at Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifDCmRBElPY

Guy Spier, The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment http://www.amazon.com/Education-Value-Investor-Transformativ...

[eevilspock]

"> You need to look inward and see what is causing the drift."

I'm rather dismayed that the post, every single comment on this thread (as of my writing this, et least) as well as what appears to be the gist of Guy Spier's book is about "me, me and me".

I'm all for finding oneself and personal improvement. Please, please do take better care of yourself, both mentally and physically. But if that does not lead you to realizing the best path to improving your lot is to improve the lot of others, then that makes me and the whole world quite sad.