This is what I have gathered from PG's essays: To do what you love, you need the time to do it. You can make the time in one of two ways: either go the organic

This is what I have gathered from PG's essays: To do what you love, you need the time to do it. You can make the time in one of two ways: either go the organic route, where you take a job in a field you like and slowly increase the interesting part of your work. The other option is the two-job route, where you have one job that pays the bills and another which is your true love. Startups are the extreme case of the two-job route, both in terms of time and payoff. You do the not-so-fun job of creating enough wealth (something people want) quickly, so that you can sell it for lots of money. And hence time. For most people with exit strategies, their true love is not the startup. It's just building cool stuff, even if people don't pay money for it. It's more fun designing a programming language than making a web store builder.