Upvoted because you can be a blowhard/divisive at times, but this was all pretty solid. If you don't like it, then stop doing it. That's not giving up. That's

Upvoted because you can be a blowhard/divisive at times, but this was all pretty solid. If you don't like it, then stop doing it. That's not giving up. That's choosing not to do something that you don't enjoy. Most people need to give up on their narrow and default American™ definition of success, not their desire to create or build something. I'm guilty as charged for grinding away at unfulfilling projects for years because I soaked up a lot of the HN refrain that the definition of a project's "success" was money. What that really did was suck the joy out of life and eliminated the freedom to simply build something for the sake of building it. I guess it's only slightly ironic that the website named for hackers/programmers has taught many of them to deny their passion for building/creating things and crucify any sort of authentic inspiration in the name of worshiping the almighty dollar.