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This is early 2019. Different world. There is so little need for stories of overprivilege right now, even for this audience.

Supermancho 6y ago
The nunber of narcissists that need this kind of attention - I made money and I gave it all up is reasonable, given the number of software devs in the world, but the visibility of their identically inane stories, amounts to noise. Give me the link to this blogspam along with the success story (of what they ended up doing 5 years later) and it might hold my interest.
- lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
  Especially since, a year later, the answer seems to be "selling how to build a Twitter following" self help videos. [0] This is just someone who desperately needs to justify why he retired early (which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do if you've got the cash and wish to live that sort of lifestyle, but there's no need to wrap it all up in some pseudo-psychology about motivation) . [0] https://danielvassallo.com/#doing https://danielvassallo.com/#doing
  - langitbiru 6y ago
    Right now he is also working a part-time job as a head of product in Gumroad (working 10 hours per week). https://twitter.com/shl/status/1300848723182776322?s=08 https://twitter.com/shl/status/1300848723182776322?s=08
m0llusk 6y ago
True enough, but this is about the meaninglessness of privilege. The author went to where the grass was provably greener. And it ended up being a valueless delusion. So now it is time for something different. This sounds more similar to current stories of desperation than different.
- P_I_Staker 6y ago
  In fairness, it ended with being paid obscene amounts of money. Lost of people consider life a valueless delusion. For most people life is a frustrating grind, and there was never any light at the end of the tunnel. So there never was any delusion of living a meaningful life. Plus they have no money either. The reality that much of the HN crowd has to come to terms with is that you'll probably never find your passion project. Most people don't, and if they do, it's a fleeting thing that only last a couple years. Otherwise we're here to make money and live as comfortably as possible. That means valuing the right mix of boundaries and compensation. It's much better to focus on living meaningful lives, our relationships, and make best use of the free time we have.
- Bakary 6y ago
  I'm not getting the idea that privilege is meaningless from that story. On the contrary, for someone to honestly believe and state without any trace of irony that they are starting from nothing with their own bare hands with 15k monthly expenses and more than a million in savings means that privilege is hugely meaningful and significant as it allows people to live in completely different realities.
jaxn 6y ago
Different world in that the average person at HN now reads this similar to how the average person in general would have read it in 2019. This article was no less tone-deaf in 2019.

Supermancho 6y ago

The nunber of narcissists that need this kind of attention - I made money and I gave it all up is reasonable, given the number of software devs in the world, but the visibility of their identically inane stories, amounts to noise. Give me the link to this blogspam along with the success story (of what they ended up doing 5 years later) and it might hold my interest.

lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
Especially since, a year later, the answer seems to be "selling how to build a Twitter following" self help videos. [0] This is just someone who desperately needs to justify why he retired early (which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do if you've got the cash and wish to live that sort of lifestyle, but there's no need to wrap it all up in some pseudo-psychology about motivation) . [0] https://danielvassallo.com/#doing https://danielvassallo.com/#doing
- langitbiru 6y ago
  Right now he is also working a part-time job as a head of product in Gumroad (working 10 hours per week). https://twitter.com/shl/status/1300848723182776322?s=08 https://twitter.com/shl/status/1300848723182776322?s=08

m0llusk 6y ago

True enough, but this is about the meaninglessness of privilege. The author went to where the grass was provably greener. And it ended up being a valueless delusion. So now it is time for something different. This sounds more similar to current stories of desperation than different.

P_I_Staker 6y ago
In fairness, it ended with being paid obscene amounts of money. Lost of people consider life a valueless delusion. For most people life is a frustrating grind, and there was never any light at the end of the tunnel. So there never was any delusion of living a meaningful life. Plus they have no money either. The reality that much of the HN crowd has to come to terms with is that you'll probably never find your passion project. Most people don't, and if they do, it's a fleeting thing that only last a couple years. Otherwise we're here to make money and live as comfortably as possible. That means valuing the right mix of boundaries and compensation. It's much better to focus on living meaningful lives, our relationships, and make best use of the free time we have.
Bakary 6y ago
I'm not getting the idea that privilege is meaningless from that story. On the contrary, for someone to honestly believe and state without any trace of irony that they are starting from nothing with their own bare hands with 15k monthly expenses and more than a million in savings means that privilege is hugely meaningful and significant as it allows people to live in completely different realities.

jaxn 6y ago

Different world in that the average person at HN now reads this similar to how the average person in general would have read it in 2019. This article was no less tone-deaf in 2019.