Absolutely love this quote from the article: "Money is like gas in the car – you need to pay attention or you’ll end up on the side of the road – but a well-lived life is not a tour of gas stations!" - Tim O'Reilly
Money can be an incredibly useful thing to have, but getting happiness is a lot more complicated than just getting a lot of money.
You can put lipstick on a pig...
and a painting is just some oil with some impurities on a cotton backing.
The fact that words sometimes convey practical meaning does not preclude them from also being art.
I need to start a website called "The cold-hearted comments of HN".
> You can put lipstick on a pig...
Was this comment the spoken word in disguise? It sounded a little poetic to me.
Your statement /was/ to the point. that doesn't make it not a platitude.
I don't want to talk about this any further. We have misunderstood one another to the point that this isn't productive.
Oh man. A hacker news comment 'This isn't productive' Now you have me laughing. Seriously, I need to block news.ycombinator.com at my router again. I didn't even get one server up and ready today (though I dealt with several hard drives, a co-lo emergency and some social/business bullshit... I wasn't completely unproductive, but HN... did not help with that.)