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Amazingly little perspective some of these guys have. Appears to have been his first job and he's 8 years in, so we're looking at what? A roughly 30 year-old guy who has worked at all of one employer and he's sitting here talking as if he's an expert on what motivates humans across a lifetime.

Feel free to share your experience and beliefs, but please don't act like this is science and you're some kind of authority. You have no idea if you'll even still agree with yourself in another decade. I know for damn sure I no longer believe life has the same purpose for me I thought it did when I was 30.



We travel around our world 4 times: the first, to fall in love; the second, to teach people what we now know; the third, to apologize for being so arrogant; and the fourth time, to say goodbye.


> Feel free to share your experience and beliefs, but please don't act like this is science and you're some kind of authority.

I’d suspect there’s a correlation between this behavior and quick IC SWE promotion at big companies.




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