More To That

What a great and timely question! :) I quit a week ago to take a year-long sabbatical.

> 1. What pushed you to do it?

The pursuit of curiosity, for the most part. That's what makes quitting a lot harder when you have a good job and nothing to complain about: you feel like you're making a huge mistake on a whim. Doubly so when you consider the state of the job market at this time.

That said, we don't live to work; we work to live. It's a lot of risk and uncertainty, but you should remember that while some unknown bad things can happen in the future, unknown good things can happen too! [1] When you own your time, you increase your luck surface considerably: you have more opportunities to travel, to wander, to play, to meet new people, to tinker, to discover.

So I've been thinking and reading about this a lot. The final push came from two books I read: "The Pathless Path" by Paul Millerd [2] and "The Inner Compass" by Lawrence Yeo [3]. I can't recommend them enough.

> 2. What will you be doing? (Even if nothing!)

I have a huge Steam backlog to beat... :) Besides that, I'll be studying computer science and maths. Programming language theory, compilers, and functional programming are particularly close to my heart.

But, most importantly, enjoying life!

[1] https://moretothat.com/take-the-leap/

[2] https://pathlesspath.com/

[3] https://compass.moretothat.com/

Your comment reminded me of this excellent post, best read with its fun accompanying illustrations, "How Money Forever Changed Us":

https://moretothat.com/how-money-forever-changed-us/

Specifically, the discussion of the "pogs" craze in elementary schools in the US in the 90s.
"Basically, a nice little gambling ring was growing amongst us starry-eyed 2nd graders."

The OP would certainly read differently if he wrote, "How I won $50K in 3 days with NFTs", rather than saying how he "made" $50K.

Also the Gordon Gekko quote from "Wall Street":

"Money itself isn’t lost or made, it’s simply transferred –- from one perception to another. ... I create nothing. I own."[1]

[1]: https://amontalenti.com/2011/12/16/wall-street-the-movie-25-years-later

You reminded me of this song: https://open.spotify.com/track/2Z77xPgph4BVaW8BgzVZrp?si=c-1YF_gGTd-xeJiqoB9C2g

And I believe what you say is very true, although I'm one of the ones that easily move and embrace the change - I think I keep doing it for the fun and the challenge and simply out of curiosity. At least that's what I tell myself, since I've had to _really_ think if I was trying to run away from anything whenever I did choose to move, exactly because of that expression and of this song.

ps. I also went into my notes and found this gem, which I've really enjoyed reading some time ago:
https://moretothat.com/travel-is-no-cure-for-the-mind/

I love finance biographies from Neckar, its more of a longer newsletter but stories are fascinating: https://neckar.substack.com/

Its not sensational, but just well researched and put together. A good example is bootstrapping buyouts: https://neckar.substack.com/p/reginald-lewis-bootstrapping-buyouts

Cedric's commoncog already mentioned here.

And second these resources:

- https://waitbutwhy.com/ by Tim Urban

- https://moretothat.com/ by Lawrence Yeo

- https://psyche.co/

- https://aeon.co/

- https://www.quantamagazine.org/

- https://waitbutwhy.com/ by Tim Urban

- https://moretothat.com/ by Lawrence Yeo

- https://psyche.co/

- https://aeon.co/

- https://www.quantamagazine.org/

I didn't realise till now, I read at least 2-3 articles a week from the above list. Well written long form content.