Gwern Branwen

You know, I don't travel much or eat out or have health insurance or anything like that.

Um, I, I cook my own food.

I use a free gym.

Uh, there was this time where the floor of my bedroom, you know, started collapsing.

Um, it was so old that the humidity had like decayed the wood.

Um, and we, we just got a bunch of scrap wood and a joist and propped it up.

Uh, you know, so if it lets in some bugs, oh, well, um, I, I live like a grad student, um, but with better ramen basically.

Uh, and, and I don't mind it much since I, I think I, you know, I basically spent all my time reading anyway.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm lucky enough to be in excellent health and have had no real emergencies to date.

This can't last forever, obviously.

And so it won't.

I'm definitely not trying to claim that this is like an ideal lifestyle or that anyone else could or should try to like replicate my exact approach.

I got lucky with Bitcoin in particular and with being satisfied living like a monk and with the health that I've had.

Anyone who would like to take up a career as a writer or blogger should understand this is not an example that they specifically can imitate.

Right.

I don't think I'm not trying to be a role model.

Every writer will have to figure it out a different way.

Maybe it can be something like a sub stack or just writing on the side while slinging JavaScript for a tech company.

I don't know.