"...PROVIDED WE STOP WASTING TIME AND GET TO WORK." Hmm, I have two reactions to this. 1. You're right, there's much to be done and little time to do it. 2. C

"...PROVIDED WE STOP WASTING TIME AND GET TO WORK." Hmm, I have two reactions to this. 1. You're right, there's much to be done and little time to do it. 2. Chill, grab a <your favorite libation here>, and enjoy the sunset; there will never be another like it ever again. I've been thinking the last few weeks about this sorta very thing - so much to do, so little time. I live in San Francisco. I've worked for 'stratups' (I hate that term now) the past few years and there's always that cloud of "hurry up!" hanging over one's head. Hurry up before someone else launches before you! Hurry up or you'll loose first mover advantage! Hurry up because we have this deadline and if we don't make it, we'll loose customer opportunities! I starting to be so over that crap. Maybe it's burn out. Maybe I really see through this ruse (maybe it's not a ruse at all). I feel like I'm a capitalist like the next guy, but constantly being focused on work and reading about 'startup' (shudder) founders and how they have to choose between work and family or work and life is bullshit. I'm not sure if this pace of 'innovation' is making humans happier, cleaner, etc. I mean, I suppose on the scale of humanity it is, but I don't see certain small companies making any dent in humanity. Hence, what the OP is saying. Sure, some companies do make dents, but like everything, it's a numbers game and most won't. So I'm really starting to feel like I want to work much less and enjoy my time outside of work and with family much more. Being on someone else's clock and having all my (or most of my) mental energy focused on their dream or even my dream where I might be overtaken any moment from some competitor is total suck. I feel like we're all living in some state of paranoia - oh noes, I'll be overtaken any moment if I don't get this build out tonight.. This post probably won't matter much to anyone (maybe a few?) and definitely won't matter at all to the planet, solar system, galaxy, universe. I won't matter when it comes down to it and I'm probably the rule, definitely not the exception. Realizing this is ok and helps me re-focus my attention (because that's the most important thing we have) on what really matters - life, family, friends, vacations :). Balance. Maybe getting to work helping people is good, but getting to work to just get rich, wear one's self ragged, make someone else rich - that seems like exercise in stupidity and totally unbalanced.