growth, maybe

[waider]

I spent a lot of time wanting to be a hacker.

I never really made it, but I realise now that that's probably a good thing for me.

I'd written a big long explanation of the above, but part of it concerns people who might conceivably stumble across this at some point, and part of it may be considered offensive to some of my friends, so I'll just leave it at that.

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[littleamerica.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to try to draw you out on this one, but I will say this: I work with at least one guy in his mid-thirties/early forties who is dealing with the same thing or something of a similar flavor. He's a serious code monster and compulsive slashdot reader, but he's reached a point where e.g. his renegade Apple-owning persona and his shrewd Apple-shareholder persona are having a hard time getting along, and he increasingly tends to greet their dog property laws mentality with rough scorn.

And this:
Personally I'm at a point where I think "Information Wants to be Free" is a nice metaphor in much the same way that a "selfish gene" is a nice metaphor, but it isn't the sort of thing one founds one's worldview on, and it works poorly in extreme conditions.