A lot of what the post talks about is applicable to me. There will always be lots of very interesting things to do and some things you are forced to do, such a

A lot of what the post talks about is applicable to me. There will always be lots of very interesting things to do and some things you are forced to do, such as academic work or job related. I think at some point you have to take a step back and take a look at what is it that you are spending your life doing. So recently I had made a list of all the things I wanted to learn and have a working knowledge of: Ruby on Rails, Git and Mercurial, WebRTC, Go, Android development. iOS development, Shell scripting, Python, R, machine learning, server adminstration, Angular JS. Yes it sounds crazy probably because it is crazy. Then I reached a point where I was pushing myself to learn new technologies at an unsustainable pace. And the excuse was always "today is the last day I'll need to get by on 3 hours of sleep". Then I finally got to the point where I was completely exhausted and that forced me to take a step back and learn what was absolutely important to me (for my startup) and stop trying to learn/understand every single interesting language, framework or platform I come across (thanks partly to my HN addiction). Regarding the discussion about commuting to and from work, it's a real drain on employees, employer and the environment as well (pollution). This might not be applicable to most types of jobs, but living far away from cities and working remotely are something worth exploring. I say this from first hand experience, living in the country side, close to beautiful farms, flowing rivers and with access to hills with trails, and working on my personal projects and constantly in touch with the outside world through the internet, I never feel like I am missing out much on city life. It's probably the best of both worlds. I think eventually, the preference of living in densely populated cities will give way to leading a more peaceful life and yet continue doing creative work in smaller, less dense establishments. Hopefully a reverse urbanisation.