There are solutions you want, and solutions you dont want.

Every personal problem has at least one easy solution. better ones take more effort.

It's a bit like saying: People climbing a mountain can solve their mountain-climbing problems by not climbing mountings.

Also not unlike: It's not the destination, it's the journey.

Living on a sailboat approaches some very very hard life/existential pinnacles that most people never even attempt to climb.

Yeah, you can have a simple regular life; that's lower on problems maybe. But man, sailing around & futzing with interesting barefoot developers projects sure sounds challenging in a lot of very very excellent ways.

Satellite internet is expensive, let’s all move down town! Housing in the city is expensive, let’s all move to sailboats! So you see at some point you have to address difficulties with some kind of approach besides avoiding them

"We choose to make this video game and do the boat life thing, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win!"