> I decided that that life, for me, was not about accomplishment. It was about happiness.
He is in the unusual position to have achieved a great level of accomplishment.
He is in the unusual position to have achieved a great level of accomplishment.
People who aren't in a position to worry about self-actualization because they're trying to stay fed and clothed are unlikely to agree that money doesn't matter that much, if asked on their deathbed at presumably a young age.
Lets be real though, almost everyone who reads HN are in the self-actualization phase, instead of the "how not to starve" phase.
Can be hard to get beyond those, and money isn't the deciding factor there.
There's a zen binary koen in there somewhere