Perhaps he needs to meet up with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates for a nice lunch over which they can explain to him how to do good, mature things with his staggering wealth, rather than behaving like a baby.
And I assume that's what he's trying to do, is find a mature way to spend his money. In a way that makes the world better.
Just like a car going at 60mph isn't breaking any speed records - but a human would.
It's all relative :)
I thought that was bshimmin's point. Notch thought that Microsoft money would make him happy, and he hasn't yet figured out how to deal with the fact that it doesn't.
I don't think for a second he needed more money than he already had, or that he thought this would make him happier. And he and ez broke up even before he sold Minecraft anyway, he was never really happy.
> bshimmin's point
I thought he was being a little mean about it. Just my opinion.
In my defence, the tweet about the "great girl" who was afraid of his lifestyle rather annoyed me, but I do understand that money doesn't make for happiness - often quite the opposite - and that it can be hard to form new and trusting relationships when you have a lot in the bank.
So yes, fuck notch and his inability to maximise his personal utility.
Good to know.
If something is that easy to solve, it's not a problem.
In this instance, his problem was something like the inability to predict Ibiza's utility. He probably doesn't know himself well enough.
Some people have the isolation, and then have no choice but to endure it constantly, unable to change their circumstances. Suffering in quite desperation.
Notch wasn't isolated. He just picked the wrong destination in a large array of destinations.