Dude. Michael. o Church. I love your writing. No harm intended, but recently your "all VC funded people are Connecticut trust fund babies" rants are a bit t

Dude. Michael. o Church. I love your writing. No harm intended, but recently your "all VC funded people are Connecticut trust fund babies" rants are a bit twisted (if only because YC can whitewash so many people from "shouldn't be fundable" into fundapalooza territory). That's the only crazy pants thing I've seen recently. (Your EIR rants are kinda in the same vein, but I've seen EIRs handed out as friendships, or to failed CEOs who ruin companies then just recycle into the system, or under-23-year-old "EIRs" ego-boasting about their positions, so you're not too far off. I read everything you write as over exaggerated (which is the only way to grab these people's attention apparently). Go big and crazy or go home.) Um... what else are we talking about here. Oh, right. Loserdom. Well, I don't feel bad about anything. I enjoy having had a series of jobs where I could show up at 10am and leave at 3pm or take a week off to do a 600 mile bike ride or tell my boss "No, I won't do what you ask. It's unreasonable." knowing he has no real power in the organization. With all the startups I worked at, I never exercised my options. It was clear they were loser startups with loser founders and loser execs. They were comfortable for a time though. HN money boasting brings out all the people who have been at google since they were 23 and have been making $250k/year for the past eight years though. That kinda hurts. But, the world is big—we can be better than The Safe Path. I'm not sure how much damage the "job hopper" stigma imparts. People know shit happens. Some people. Your "one new tech hub outside SF/NYC" is way too timid. Try twelve new ones. I've got a writeup about that in my head needing to make its way out through my fingers soon. Your rent-is-overgrown-evil rants are top notch. We're one step away from landlords demanding to know how much you make so they can set the apartment price to exactly 1/3rd of your take home pay. Honestly, the best thing we (as people who haven't achieved greatness in the face of media constantly focusing solely on 18 year olds becoming millionaires) can do is to stop reading the news. Get out of your head. Mindfulness. Talk enough to change the direction of opinion in the world. Let it sink in. Talk some more. Shut up for a while and create good things. At least try. There is no try. We're only left with one practical path to greatness: Make good art. Happy 4th.