Professors Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun have suggested that many people who face crises often experience "post-traumatic growth" and that th… - Paul Millerd

You can’t choose your interests.

For some the desire for money does seem powerful enough to supersede interest but most this probably isn’t strong enough.

The choice then is to surrender to your path or force fitting yourself into what a system wants

I quit before being financially free

It is definitely harder. It would have been smart to go try to work in big tech for a couple of years. Cash in. More runway

But not a day goes by where I wish I didn’t leave a lot earlier, while healthier and younger.

a reminder that you don't need to make a ton of money fast to keep doing creative work

you can enjoy creative work for itself, you can do it with others, you can be ambitious in generous ways

don't let strongly worded content hack your sense of what you are called to do