I must be crazy then. I would've sworn that aaronsw wrote a blog post where he talked about having "fuck you money", depression, and other things like that.

here's one: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/theaftermath

i remember another one too, something about depression and it didn't matter who paid for dinner anymore, but i can't find that one.

I think that's it, and I probably heard the term "fuck you money" in the discussion following.

I don't recall ESR ever writing about fuck you money, and Google doesn't turn up anything.