[marssaxman]

Happiness, generally. Being part of a mutually-supporting community. Remaining open to new things so that life can continue to surprise me. Learning everything that can possibly be learned about everything there is to know. Understanding myself, understanding the people close to me. Using my (reliably!) good luck and high tolerance for risk not just to entertain myself, but to help blaze a trail so that people who have more to lose can still make it up to the frontier and help build an awesome future.

Career-wise, it would feel good to have contributed significantly to some piece of systems infrastructure that serves to distribute power over information away from big industry or government organizations and toward individual people. Pursuing this goal has generally conflicted with the goal of living a happy life, and I don't know whether that is merely happenstance or due to some intrinsic conflict in these goals. Perhaps I simply haven't found my moment yet; perhaps I never will. I'm going to keep my eyes open for opportunities in this direction but I don't know whether I will ever be able to realize this goal. It isn't really about me, it's about the world around me and whether other people want to do what I think we'd all be happier doing.