[wizzerking]

Using your quote for the article and adding site:https://news.ycombinator.com to the search criteria I was able to find this request for help and the following links

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17595545

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18682579

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19062504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19891084

[JamieF1]

I finally found it :) https://www.raptitude.com/2012/07/most-lives-are-lived-by-de...

[JamieF1]

Thanks, unfortunately none of these are the article I remember. I've spent hours searching for it but no luck so far. It was a blog post by somebody :(