Yes, I've read that essay, and liked it. What I'm getting at, though, is that isn't it possible that by taking the startup route, by the time you 'get there', yes, you have time to do whatever you want, but you've blown your chance to do something else?
Re:"Francisco's Money Speech" by Ayn Rand
by kirubakaran on Monday March 02, 2009 @04:18PM
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No matter what you do, you are blowing your chance to do everything else.
http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
The relevant section is called "Two Routes." Linus seems to have taken organic route, gradually arranging his life so he could spend more time on Linux. Startups are usually an instance of the other strategy, the two-job route, of which they are the most extreme form.
(For a few very lucky people, a startup can also be one's life's work. But it's usually all one can do to make a startup succeed without also satisfying that constraint.)