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Multimillionaire retired at 27. I don't think you can call his life ruined. I wonder how the health damage of sitting at a desk for years compares.
by abandonliberty 9y ago
Multimillionaire retired at 27. I don't think you can call his life ruined.
I wonder how the health damage of sitting at a desk for years compares.
- xor1 9y ago>I wonder how the health damage of sitting at a desk for years compares. Not comparable, the only real risks of brain damage sustained while working a cushy software job are injuries sustained while commuting and reading really bad HN comments.
- Kenji 9y agoWorking with legacy C++ code at work is a serious risk for my brain. It hurts physically to read some of these lines of code.
- dingo_bat 9y agoI'd rather have carpal tunnel than reduced brain function.
- magnetic 9y agoMoney is no substitute for health. It will just sound like a "philosophical tidbit" until you get hit by a health issue for which you'd give everything you own to get rid of. Then you'll really understand the meaning of it: no matter how rich you are, you still can't have a decent quality of life.
- rhizome 9y agoComparing apples to oranges. One happened in the past and the other might happen in the future. Plus, there are exercises for problems with sitting, so one can continue to sit for a living and not experience any of those problems.
- ObeyTheGuts 9y agoBuddy brain is priceless...
- Bakary 9y agoIt's not sitting that is the biggest damage but the amount of life lost doing things you don't care about as much as other things you could be doing with your life.
- abandonliberty 9y agoInsightful, depressing. I feel like you could make this into a motivational poster.