Ask HN: What is your goal in life?

Those are perfectly fine objectives!

Thorough life seek working with inspiring individuals who love what they do, and eventually you'll make sense of what your inner purpose seems to be.

Recently I've started thinking about the importance of acknowledging multiple top-level goals. At times I've tried to describe my life goals as a dependency tree of priorities, but eventually decided that framing it as such, with a single root node, does not do justice to the human experience. I want some selfish things, and also some very altruistic things, and those can coexist because I'm not a singularly focused machine. I have different moods and am influenced by the people and culture around me, and I admit that I cannot fully control my environment.

Perhaps this is too abstract an answer, but maybe it helps a bit. I'm 35, and am still working on more concrete answers. In many ways my thinking has not changed much since I was 21.

I want to do no harm to the world (or as little as possible from the environmental perspective). I want to spend my time on intellectually stimulating, meaningful work that is of real consequence to others. I want to be in love with someone, and have deep relationships with a variety of people. I want to be wealthy enough that I can live in comfort as I get older (although I feel that some level of frugality is healthy, physically and mentally). I want to enjoy the natural beauty of the world, all the more because much of it will be gravely damaged in my lifetime.

I think I have made some progress on all fronts!

I got to think about this for months after I made a hit ios app (everything is relative but should be fine economically for many years).

I landed in something like "creating things that humanity hasn't yet created."

Ideally this should be real technical inventions or scientific discoveries that makes our lives better or extends the knowledge of who we are.

However I'm not smart enough to even start doing this within say nanotechnology, physics or cosmology.

I am now working on a science fiction film that also aims to raise awareness about ai security (very indirectly but still). If I can contribute to that discussion starting in society at the same time as I'm doing something I love, and people can enjoy watching, I'm very happy.

$200k salary before I'm 33; $20MM before I'm 45.

To defeat the Guardian and become Master of Orion!