[natnatenathan]

This is a popular narrative, that you make money or live, but you can’t do both. That is complete BS - it is equally dumb to be on either extreme, but it is very possible to do both. I have several friends who took the ‘live’ route, only to wake up in their 30s realizing they have an equally empty soul as the guys who worked too hard, and feel boxed out of the future they want with not much nest egg to start a family, or the experiences to have the career they want.

Here is to taking the reasonable middle road, the one no one writes songs about, but (I think) the one that most often leads to happiness for the average person.

[q7xvh97o2pDhNrh]

Yeah, as the old saying goes: There's nothing wrong with a simple life of peace and prosperity.

I frittered away large swaths of my 20s, and now, as I try to make up the lost time in my 30s, I often think of an entirely different quote though:

  Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.
  - Neal Stephenson