> What’s cool is keeping your soul, whatever the financial cost. I knew a kid when he was knee-high who grew up to graduate at the top of his high school class

> What’s cool is keeping your soul, whatever the financial cost. I knew a kid when he was knee-high who grew up to graduate at the top of his high school class. In his valedictory speech, full of chestnuts that were a bit too optimistic and ungrounded, he said the following: "Work doesn't necessarily make you happy but it may give you the means to do the stuff that makes you happy." I've always been struck by the simple wisdom of his statement. I think we can't always get everything from one area of life (job/career/startup). And that's fine. Life is a balancing act, which implies it is dynamic. Sometimes we sway too far and fall and our friends catch us. And we get back on.