All these steps helped me to find Paul Graham (paulgraham.com). Obviously it wasn't knowing anything about Zen Habits nor the startup concept. So now I'm here on Hacker News doing what I love.
You earn money by commenting on Hacker News?
If we could make money by reading on HN I would be rich :-)
No, I don't. But the world is darker this morning: I've got the flu and I read your comment.