Blowing up your life in the sense of the article would have involved leaving your wife. I imagine that or similar extreme changes is what the parent meant.
A lot of people in this thread think selling all their furniture is a life explosion.
Re:In praise of blowing up your life
by scarface_74 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @07:38AM
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You’re absolutely right. I reconsidered what I wrote later.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36306966
I was in the perfect place to do it at 48. I had no dependents, a stable marriage and a wife who was excited to go along for the ride with me and I had built up assets to take chances. Now that I think about it, it really wasn’t that risky. Remote was a thing and I figured worse case, someone would hire me as a consultant.