Ask HN: 27, accidentally became wealthy, lost drive. What should I do?

I doubt anyone here compares themselves to "most europeans". I am a european and it's a lot of money for me but I dont see it to be a life changing amount of money (as in I would be comfortable just spending it).

You can easily spend half of this money on on real estate.

It is a slippery slope. I've never had such resources available but having said that, at this point in time I'm the wealthiest I've ever been by a considerable margin. Through a 8/h day jobs and no investing but that's somewhat irrelevant. I admit I have lost drive in the past on multiple occasions: whether that's been due to personal problems, shit jobs and a million and one other reasons. But the one thing that has always kept me on my feet(or helped me get back up) was new technology. At some point I started getting outside my comfort zone(that is the areas where I know I'm strong) and this has been my main motivation ever since. I still rely on my 9 to 6 job but there are so many things I am getting involved with in my personal time that even if I had millions in my pocket and could focus on them entirely, I still would struggle to fit them into the 24 available hours. Leave all the NFT and web3 bullshit aside - that's just another ponzi scheme to get masses of people pour their own money(hard or easy earned) into a bottomless pit. Personally - setting GPU prices aside, electronics are dirt cheap in general - sensors, communication systems, embedded systems, single board computers which have become insanely powerful and efficient - there is a huge void that hasn't been filled yet and keeps me up at night constantly. I'm not talking about alexa-enabled light bulbs. Just scroll through the mouser catalog and you'll see so many things that should exist but for one reason or another still don't. This is what my spare time has been revolving around lately and for what it's worth I've started working on an insanely ambitious project and if successful, I'll most certainly open source. My take is don't focus on what others are doing - there is no point in building yet another facebook, another netflix, amazon or blockchain - we have an abundance of those and no one really cares about them anymore. You are in the perfect position to try something that no one has ever done before. My advice - save some of your wealth as a pension fund, keep some of it as it is, invest some and set aside a fixed amount for experimenting and building things. Keep your eyes open, go outside your comfort zone often and you most certainly will keep your drive at high levels.

Nice fiction. Farming clout for crypto on hacker news is next level of degeneracy. Also, 7.5 mil is not even lot of money to brag about. It will dry pretty fast considering inflation 5 years from now is going to be double digit.

I'm always surprised how HN is disconnected from the reality sometimes.

It's basically 197 k$ a year until he "retires" at 65 in 38 years. And that's if he's keeping the money without investing it.

You're free and liberated. Try to find what actually makes you happy instead of grinding yourself down. It will probably be something that isn't related to money.