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> really didn't have that big of an impact on me as a person This is because he was anyway doing what he was most interested and was paid for it. Others migh

• metroidfan832 9y ago
  A very relevant rebuttal from page 91/92: >Because you get really nice feedback. When you write a graphics algorithm, it draws a picture for you. While data can be re- warding in its own way, in general the human species is wired to re- spond much more strongly to visual things and things that have to be interpreted from symbols. So there’s something fundamental there why it’s a neat thing. But we do get to work on a whole lot of areas. I enjoy all aspects of it, but games have always been one place where there are challenging things and it has its own reward at the end, aside from the problem itself.
• ido 9y ago
  He also got rich very young. You don't really need to earn all that much money to have "enough" as a humble, single 20-something guy: I remember crunching my expenses in a spreadsheet around 2010 (before I got married and started a family) and coming up with average expenditures of €1200 per month. He may have simply already been past that threshold before getting the 100x income bump.