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How do you get into having a life like this? Is it just building a passion project / idea then expanding if others enjoy + sponsor it. It seems like he was the

• pstuart 6y ago
  > How do you get into having a life like this? Stay single and childless ;-)
• UweSchmidt 6y ago
  There are a lot of people who drop out a bit and travel around the world. There are also lot of weird projects in the kickstarter world. Combine the two, do some social media, finance it all through parents, kickstarter, patreon and corporate sponsors and off you go on your machine learning-enabled unicycle.
• brudgers 6y ago
  The starting point does not seem to be applying to grad school, at least in this case. The starting point seems to be building a bicycle. The interesting thing about bicycle projects is scale. They are detailed engineering projects but manageable by a single person from design through prototyping through delivery. Basically the average person can build a bicycle on their own through persistence. The hard part is accepting a bicycle in the present when the dream is a boat and peddling for a few decades to make the boat happen. In an important sense, the computer geekery is the least interesting part. It could have been a musician with a harpsichord. Sure the technology is interesting in its own right. But the bicycle makes it a story about autonomy and autonomy is the theme of the tail.