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You do the work for the money, but you don't invest yourself in the work: you care about the people who love you back at home. In the end, the work (caveat edge cases) will be meaningless. You're converting time into fiat you need to pay for life. You can always make more money, time is non renewable.

"Today is your last day." "Meh, whatevs, going home to my family."

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/putting-time-in-perspective.h...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Top_Five_Regrets_of_the_Dy...

(20+ years in tech, have been laid off twice, fired once, aware none of it really matters, we're all dead eventually, a blip in the cosmic timeline)

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I found out I was getting Amazoned in the 13th city of a year long “nomadding” journey with my wife where we were booking one way flights across the country.

My wife asked me what was the plan. I told her nothing is changing, we went to our 14th city, I interviewed for three companies remotely and had two offers in three weeks. I accepted one and flew from there to meet my cousin in NYC for the US Tennis Open and met my wife in Chicago where my new employee shipped my computer.

I flew back home to end our year long trip, had Amazon ship the box to me to send my work computer back to them.

One monkey don’t stop no show.

Happy to hear you landed somewhere after Amazon.

Friend of mine went to Egypt, was floored by the pyramids (and more), so now I’m thinking along the lines of:

It won’t matter, so get drunk with your friends and stack some rocks.

>it won't matter, so get drunk with your friends and stack some rocks.

Good to take a balanced approach, but my thoughts too a lot of the time. I am most likely going to go to Patagonia in the next few weeks/months, a dream of mine, and then go home and see grandparents while they are still around.

My approach as well. Yep, agreed: we are just blips in the cosmic timeline.

The links are wonderful, thank you.

I appreciated the part about caregiver burnout:

"They are the shadow soldiers in the battle, where all the attention and support goes to the patient."

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