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Reiss, a professor of psychology at Ohio State University , argues that a diverse range of human motivations can't be forced into these categories of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. https://archive.is/57CX
This passage was unintentionally hilarious considering his salary range. From lurking on HN over the years, I am under the distinct impression that many tech workers completely lack perspective even as they go for long bouts of introspection.
This is early 2019. Different world. There is so little need for stories of overprivilege right now, even for this audience.
>I’m going all in on independence, and I’m going to try to make a living with my own bare hands starting from nothing. I don’t expect to only do things that I like, but it will be on my terms. My target is to cover my family’s expenses before I run out of savings while doing something that intrinsically motivates me This passage was unintentionally hilarious considering his salary range. From lurking on HN over the y…
Good for that dude, but he's quick to generalize his personal experiences.
This is early 2019. Different world. There is so little need for stories of overprivilege right now, even for this audience.
True enough, but this is about the meaninglessness of privilege. The author went to where the grass was provably greener. And it ended up being a valueless delusion. So now it is time for something different. This sounds more similar to current stories of desperation than different.
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The nunber of narcissists that need this kind of attention - I made money and I gave it all up is reasonable, given the number of software devs in the world, but the visibility of their identically inane stories, amounts to noise. Give me the link to this blogspam along with the success story (of what they ended up doing 5 years later) and it might hold my interest.
Especially since, a year later, the answer seems to be "selling how to build a Twitter following" self help videos. [0] This is just someone who desperately needs to justify why he retired early (which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do if you've got the cash and wish to live that sort of lifestyle, but there's no need to wrap it all up in some pseudo-psychology about motivation) . [0] https://danielvassallo.com/#…
I usually love a good post about quitting the corporate gig to chase greener pastures too, but this is definitely too much.
>I’m going all in on independence, and I’m going to try to make a living with my own bare hands starting from nothing. I don’t expect to only do things that I like, but it will be on my terms. My target is to cover my family’s expenses before I run out of savings while doing something that intrinsically motivates me This passage was unintentionally hilarious considering his salary range. From lurking on HN over the y…
He has $15k in 'expenses' every month according to a linked blog post in that article