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I'm cautiously optimistic. Bigger, though, is just a side effect of playing a game well, not a goal I really go after for it's own sake. Pick a name out of your Rolodex, any name: I wouldn't trade my life for his for all the tea in China.

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Let me rephrase. Something wider in possibility.

When I started delicious, I had no idea that it would someday be a company. Instead it was a thing I wanted to make. But it turned out to be very pregnant with possibility.

I'd like to see you do something that is similarly wide.

Does that make any sense?

I get you.

I'm sitting at home at 3 PM on a Tuesday writing patches to the OSS project that spun out of the day job that spun out of the weeklong project which was supposed to, someday, buy me a video game. We never know what the future holds, right?

We're always creating the preconditions of our own future. At some times more deliberately than others.

What video game?

Thank you for this perspective. I was recently thinking about how hard we strive to become the best at what we do, and how hard it is to actually know if/when you have gotten there (let alone how long you will be there if you get there) and thus it is a horrible thing to hang our sense of significance and worth on. I don't know the specifics of how you define your sense of contentment, but it seems pretty clear that you do.

I know a guy who composed a message to aliens, uploaded it to his iPhone, traveled to Arecibo, and transmitted it to the stars.

I'm happy he's happy. I'm also happy he has never talked to me about my opinions on NASA. (Or iPhones, for that matter.)

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