Sell your company, keep your company. If you want to maximize your ability to work on interesting stuff, remember that there is a effective but unglamorous dual

Sell your company, keep your company. If you want to maximize your ability to work on interesting stuff, remember that there is a effective but unglamorous dual pronged approach to financial security. Require less luxury to be happy. Learn to cook brown rice. Bring your lunch to work. Walk to your job (or to a bus stop to your job) and can the gym membership. Yoga studios tend to offer free classes on Sunday. Visit the library instead of buying so many books. In fact most libraries will even buy a book they don't have if you ask them. And if you really want to give your mind a break from coding, buy a repair manual and learn to fix your own car. This actually results in the satisfaction of an affectionate bond with your car that you can't buy at the dealership. Two things have surprised me the further I go down this path. 1. Hacking the system by revolting against the consumer culture is so much fun, that I keep pushing harder regardless of my income. 2. While living like this, you'll even find low-maintenance (high-everything-else) women doing the same thing who find it attractive.