Ask HN: What kind of life do you dream about?

Ideally I would work remotely part-time, spend rest of the time taking care of a farm in the countryside, aiming for self-sufficiency and sustainability where possible. I would share this with my family, which I already have.

It’s a realistic scenario if we find good income that can be done remotely.

I would if I could... I've got stuff in the garage I don't have energy to clear out.

I’m living it now but didn’t realize it until recently. It’s easy to focus on what we don’t have and want something else. I came to this realization when I kept getting everything I worked for but then was on to the next thing. When I was 20 I never could have imagined the life I ended up living (in my mid-40s now).

After getting burnt out in tech startups 3 times I made a change. Sold 95% of our worldly possessions in order to have the flexibility to live anywhere. I get to spend my days drawing, writing, creating info products, and helping people get unstuck.

Sometimes all we need to do is look at what we have, figure out what we want, and get rid of the rest.

I've been diving into linguistics, have always had better aptitude with language than mathematics, especially as a bilingual individual, German being my first language. However studying linguistics and the interconnection with math led to a personal breakthrough specifically physics/calculus related. However I am self teaching and really finding quantum mechanics/theoretical quantum physics fascinating and fairly comprehensible and have been working on some things in that realm, that said I feel like I'm most likely falling into a self bias trap, i.e. self confirmation based on inadequate information and missing fundamentals. I've tried to focus it more into a test project, specifically in the realm of cryptography, I have a fairly high aptitude for patturn recognition. I'm planning on utilizing it in designing both an embedded hardware/software application for security/authentication. It's difficult to articulate via this format, but there are through lines with a number of fields, specifically music synthesis, a hobby of mine for now, as well as circuit design, which I am also teaching myself, building my own eurorack synth modules. I'm still limited in my coding skill so that's kind of my start point right now. Deciding on a language is proving to be difficult especially with the new memory safe parameters, NIST standards etc. I have some experience with C++, planned on working more with python. The logic seems sound but don't have anyone to really sound off to help focus on things I'm inevitably missing. Apologies for the word salad, it's a lot to try and explain. My educational background is in social science research and cs networking. Had a lot of road blocks in the last 2 years which led to some personal hardships (not unique considering) which seem to be resulting in some positive breakthroughs. But I'm scraping 40 and and time certainly flies by, still paying off student loans etc, school really isn't an option unfortunately at this point, academia would be an ideal place/way to meet people. Bottom line is I need to nail down specifics to focus on and produce project results, but not an undertaking I feel I can or should solo. I'm relatively intelligent and might be better suited in a position to promt the smarter folks in the room on some of what I outlined. Hope this was somewhat comprehensible.