Her point (as I took it) was that she had such a strong habit of living her life entirely in terms of her accomplishments that she was living her life inauthentically without even realizing it. And it took a whole lot of space away from her life just to become aware of it.
Not everything can be reduced down to a three-word "TL;DR."
Edit: It's http://letsmend.com/ - you can find a domain registration page if you search her name and the name of the startup.
Again, the experience she described cannot be reduced to "YOLO." YOLO could just as easily mean "I left Google to do something bigger and more successful." But that's the opposite of what she did. She learned to figure out what she actually wanted instead of what she would get praised for, even if it was an overall less ambitious life path.
Why waste your life doing what doesn't fulfill you? You only live once. Is that not applicable as well? This is precisely my argument. I'm just saying we should be ok with offering critique on style and content, not silencing it around here.
Because it can be extremely difficult to distinguish your own needs/wants from the desires and expectations of the people around you.
No one wakes up in the morning thinking "I'm going to ignore what I want for no reason, and instead do what everyone else thinks I should want." And yet it's an easy trap to fall into, like the author did.
On critiquing: something has gone very wrong when you're making dismissive and snarky remarks about someone's long, personal thought piece. You could do a number of interesting things, like, say, disagree with it or suggest improvements. But if you're idea of a critique is "this is long and boring and I know this stuff", I suggest simply finding other reading material instead.
EDIT: By rectify I meant upvote haberman, not downvote me :) Well thats fine too, but meant the former.
- you get upset at OP for missing the point and criticizing the author for being too wordy
- you give a neat two sentence summary of the article
- you say sometimes you can't give a nice neat summary of an article
- the massive dose of irony that just happened is lost on you.
The Internet is great at the rapid dissemination of micro-communications. But let's not forget that there's merit in taking your time as well.