Hello 2015

[Lucas Gonze]

About five years ago I went through a similar period after a good friend
died.  It was a turning point in my life.  I stopped working pure money
jobs and started thinking of a life coding as being the same kind of life
as an artist's.  If that had never happened I would never have achieved
the profound satisfaction I've gotten from open source development,
projects done at my own expense just for the love of it.

I used the absurd hourly rates from 95-2000 mainly to finance hacking and
music.  ...in a way it bugs me that I didn't use the time to stock up on
cash, but I am overall very happy to have been able to put my career in
service of my life.


On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Michael Watson wrote:

> Hi, this is my first post to this list. I am a technologist whose focus has
> recently shifted . I am looking for a place to discuss issues related to my
> new focus. I have spent the last 20 years writing 68K asm/C/C++ code; I was
> one of the original authors of Microsoft Works for the Mac. Having
> established my street cred, as the hip-hop people would say, I would like to
> ask if this list is appropriate for what I want to talk about. First let me
> describe what shifted my focus,