I thought this was pretty insightful: These programmers have given themselves the real freedom zero: the freedom to decide for themselves what they want to wor

I thought this was pretty insightful: These programmers have given themselves the real freedom zero: the freedom to decide for themselves what they want to work on. That is what it means to be successful. If you don't decide for yourself how you work, what you work on, and when, you're not a successful person. Perhaps as a statement about the shoddy state of our society, he includes the assumption that one has to be a business owner-- and rich-- to get there (which is not strictly true, as Valve is establishing with the success of open allocation).