What should I do with my life?

I think it's evil the amount of energy and resources that go into creating unnecessary desires in people in order to cultivate a consumer class. It's time to reap the benefits of our technological advancements, by working shorter weeks, finding less expensive ways to build shelter (houses), and becoming more proficient in local food generation.

<i>Almost all of the people I interviewed found their calling ! after great difficulty ...the catfish farmer used to be an investment banker, the truck driver had been an entertainment lawyer, a chef had been an academic, and the police officer was a Harvard MBA.</i><p>Hmm, I think there might be some inherent bias here. These people were so interesting because Bronson <i>chose</i> the interesting ones (he says he selected 70 out of hundreds).

Oooh. Po Bronson is probably my favourite author. There's something about his writing style that pushes my buttons.<p>It's probably worth nothing that he used to do a lot of writing for Wired magazine (eg <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.12/hotmale.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.12/hotmale.html</a> ) and his second novel, The First $20m Is Always The Hardest, was about a startup ( <a href="http://pobronson.com/index_first_20_million.htm" rel="nofollow">http://pobronson.com/index_first_20_million.htm</a> ).<p>His site has lots of excerpts and monologues worth reading (eg <a href="http://pobronson.com/The%20Cooks%20Story.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://pobronson.com/The%20Cooks%20Story.pdf</a> is totally awesome).<p>He's also has the distinction of being the author of my favourite novel. Here's the first chapter: <a href="http://pobronson.com/filth.htm" rel="nofollow">http://pobronson.com/filth.htm</a> (love that first line!).

I like the general idea of making stuff which makes people spending <i>less</i> time at a computer, not more. Like giving the information they need and can use in daily life.<p>This approach excludes working on most social network stuff or things built on the top of it just for the sake of being another 'social' thing.<p>Cmon people, what's 'social' is happening behind the scenes in our lives, not in teh networkz.