"The top is full of people who hate what they had to do or who they had to become to get there." What a great quote. There are so many things I could be doing

"The top is full of people who hate what they had to do or who they had to become to get there." What a great quote. There are so many things I could be doing as a blogger/YouTuber/solopreneur/whatever to try to maximize my chances of success, but I would hate myself for doing them. Things like putting horrible newsletter signup popups on my website, or gaming the system on YouTube to get more subs (because it's all about the subs, right?). I once worked as a software developer for a marketplace-type project where they started talking about faking analytics data for profiles so people would think the platform is successful. I voiced my hesitation at the time, and thankfully I ended up off the project before I was told point-blank to implement it, but that's the kind of crap people pull in order to rise to the top. All the privacy headaches, security breaches, UX dark patterns, and other garbage we're having to deal with online and in the computer industry is all because of people sacrificing their morals on the altar of "making it big." Silicon Valley did an excellent job marketing itself as a better capitalism than the robber barons of old, but now we see the cracks in the armor. Props to DHH for constantly and consistently pointing out the fallacies of all the entrepreneurship BS.