David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

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Every single time people would need double of what they did.

I did that for a couple of doublings until I realized, you know what?

This is silly.

I am already where I wished I would be and a million times over.

So what less is there to pursue?

Now, that doesn't mean that...

If more money is coming my way, I'm going to say no to it.

Of course not.

But it does mean that I'm free to set other things higher.

And I also do think you realize, as Jim Carrey would say, I wish everyone would get all the money that they wished for and they'd realize it wasn't the answer.

That money solves a whole host of problems and anxieties, and then it creates a bunch of new ones.

And then it also doesn't touch a huge swath of the human experience at all.

The world is full of miserable, anxious, hurt, rich people.

It's also full of miserable, anxious, poor people.

And I'd rather be a miserable, anxious, rich person than a poor person.

But it isn't this magic wand that make everything go away.

And that's, again, one of those insights, just like having children, that you cannot communicate in words.

I've never been able to persuade a person who's not wealthy that wealth wasn't going to solve all their problems.

I would even say you can care about the other stuff.