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In this telling he tried to effect change from within, but was overwhelmed, both spiritually and physically, by what he found there. If there is a positive to draw from it it lies in his ability to talk about the experience afterwards through drama and indirectly through this piece. I don't think that level of success often accrues to people trying to effect positive change from within.

This was a very moving piece, beautifully written. The story itself reminds me of a parable. Thank you for posting.

I can think of two ways you can trade money for time as a SWE: 1) Amazon has started to offer part-time jobs for SWE's (https://www.flexjobs.com/jobs/telecommuting-jobs-at-amazon) 2) relocating from the US to UK / EU gives you 25-100% more PTO and shorter hours in exchange for lower salaries

I'm not seeing anything described in the article as "buying time" that couldn't also be described as "buying the right to order someone else around" aka "delegating". Surely the most direct way of buying time is by taking a pay cut in exchange for more time off, or even taking unpaid time off. It occurs to me there may be a good proxy for this in comparing similar tech jobs in the US vs the EU / UK. The latter pay less, but receive substantially more time off.

Does it do better than Ashenfelter's simple formula: https://www.betterment.com/resources/investment-strategy/beh...

It does. I'm on 2G and HN and the article site are the only usable things I've encountered today [on TMobile's intl roaming thing]

very true