{"id":189,"date":"2006-09-20T11:11:32","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T18:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/189\/the-rest-of-your-life"},"modified":"2006-09-22T14:12:48","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T21:12:48","slug":"the-rest-of-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/189\/the-rest-of-your-life","title":{"rendered":"The Rest Of Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><!-- .caption { border-style:dashed; border-width:1px; border-color:#BBBBBB; margin-left:20px; padding:10px;}--><\/style>\n<p>\nI just finished reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMonk-Riddle-Education-Silicon-Entrepreneur%2Fdp%2F1578511402%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1158776457%2Fref%3Dpd%5Fbbs%5F1%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&#038;tag=redsweaterblo-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">The Monk and the Riddle<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=redsweaterblo-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, on the recommendation of Paul from <a href=\"http:\/\/rogueamoeba.com\/utm\/\">Rogue Amoeba<\/a>. It&#8217;s a sort of business philosophy book by Randy Komisar (with writing help from Kent Lineback).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt was a surprisingly fast read. Enjoyable and inspirational. But let me summarize it in one sentence:\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">\nStop wasting your time working on things you don&#8217;t love.\n<\/div>\n<p>\nThe two most recurring themes in the book are roughly &#8220;the journey is the reward,&#8221; and &#8220;how can you change your current work so you&#8217;d be willing to do it for the rest of your life?&#8221; He describes a malady that many of us are probably familiar with: the &#8220;deferred life plan.&#8221; This is the rationalization of present unhappiness as a mere means to an end. We&#8217;ll work for 40 years at a job we hate just so we can pursue our passion later in life.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGreat food for thought, and especially pertinent in the wake of my recent article about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/184\/the-road-less-traveled\">indie life<\/a>. I tried to examine my own circumstances using these criteria, and it boils down to four basic desires. I want a job where I build cool apps, blog, exercise, and make music. Whenever inspiration strikes me. A tall order, I know. I&#8217;m not quite there, but am hopefully moving in the right direction.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat do you want to do for the rest of your life? Are you suffering under the deferred life plan?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading The Monk and the Riddle, on the recommendation of Paul from Rogue Amoeba. It&#8217;s a sort of business philosophy book by Randy Komisar (with writing help from Kent Lineback). It was a surprisingly fast read. Enjoyable and inspirational. But let me summarize it in one sentence: Stop wasting your time working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-business","category-general","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}