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The only thing I feel is 2nd hand regret for Woz. What if he didn't cash out? What would his net worth be today?

I am so caught up in the rat race, that I can't even understand what Woz want's to say, or what makes him happy. I only feel sad for him.

But if you think about it, I actually feel sad for myself. If I were in Woz's position with ~$20m or so and had missed the Apple cash cow (assuming $500m at the very least), how would I react? Would I live my entire life with regret and remorse? Would I be bitter?

Huge props to Woz for figuring out what makes him happy and doing exactly that.

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> with ~$20m or so and had missed the Apple cash cow

But he already HAD a lot more money, and he gave it away. Do you think his behavior or outlook would change if he had $500m?

Parents should take their kids to the children's discovery museum (I think it is on Woz way).

There is nothing quite like seeing kids enraptured by playing with water or bubbles.

It is also amusing to watch closing time, as parents have to literally DRAG their crying kids away from it all out the door.

How about this:

Steve J made ~10 billion at the time of his death at 56. Steve W made ~100 million and is still around at 75.

To make math real simple, I would definitely pay $500 million a year to stick around.

Jobs is ultimately an example of how death doesn’t care what is your net worth.

As is anyone.

Well it kinda would have cared a bit but he himself didn't. He could have afforded the most bleeding edge treatments. But he chose to go to witch doctors instead.

That's example how CEOs and guys on the top are not "all knowing, smartest, best of breed" just "relentless, lucky and in right place in right time".

> The only thing I feel is 2nd hand regret for Woz.

I'm going to speculate that in most cases, 20 million and 200 million is effectively the same. I wouldn't be upset in the slightest if I missed out.

If you can get a 2% return on 20 million that's 400k / year. That's a mind boggling amount of money. I picked 2% figuring to beat inflation by that amount in an extremely low risk investment so you don't have to think about market fluctuations hurting you.

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