[thiago_fm]

What you mean is: I have a real job and live a real life.

It is normal to do that. Even making rockets can be the same thing you told us, 15 years doing the same thing. Ask a NASA engineer what he has been doing his whole life.

How to make that meaningful? Well. Somebody needs that work done, you are the one doing it. Whether it is some evil company or not, you are doing it, you have worked your whole life in order to have the skills to do that kind of work.

You are doing well.

I had the same question a while ago and came up with that conclusion. I'm actually doing quite well. Maybe consider joining a company, moving abroad or focus on hobbies, I for instance started playing the guitar, look at your early days in life and see things you liked and never tried. Also stop watching the tech news and thinking that you have to do something bleeding edge and make a dent in the universe, it is all bullshit. People are just doing their job, you can be a hard working person in any context, not only as a CEO. If this is what you want.

[EADGBE]

I would just really like to emphasize this:

Also stop watching the tech news and thinking that you have to do something bleeding edge and make a dent in the universe, it is all bullshit. People are just doing their job, you can be a hard working person in any context, not only as a CEO. If this is what you want.

[bartcobain]

As Musk quoted Roosevelt in the podcast: "Comparison Is the Thief of Joy".

[lihaciudaniel]

Jordan Peterson's 12 rules for life I want to highlight.

[lihaciudaniel]

It has 2 rules (instead of rules think as them as highlights. 1. One is about comparison. Why? Because now we are more connected than ever and it is easier to fall in that habit, instead the Author argues that you should use this habit to have a look at the day before, basically compete with one self. The other one is about telling the truth, I don't want to sound like an edgy 15 year old JP fan but this reminds me of Tim Ferris' quote about how a successful man can be measured by the amount of uncomfortable conversations he had in life. Also from a rationalist point of view sincerity is a virtue. I didn't said the number of rules from the book because even though the book starts with numbers (1) it is a good read book (worth the effort)

(1) this isn't an unhealthy book to read, quite the opposite the rule of N list of things applies to articles, JP has good wisdom for our lives in industrial society: http://www.paulgraham.com/nthings.html