Comments on: Hacking Your Life vs. Hacking Your Computer, Abundance 2.0, and Dealing with Bugs

By: Proxies Century

Proxies Century — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:28:59 +0000

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By: Computer Credit Financing

Computer Credit Financing — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:36:20 +0000

This is so interested! Where can I find more like this?

By: Michael M.

Michael M. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:06:43 +0000

Congrats on making the Technorati top 15k!

By: Michael M.

Michael M. — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:38:06 +0000

Clay, thanks for sharing your story. I did not realize you had started a software company at age 15. I’m sure the path you chose for yourself at that time enabled you to be the person you are today.

By: Duff

Duff — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:05:03 +0000

I just hacked my RSS reader. Now it has a direct connection to God. Beat that!

By: Annie

Annie — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:18:19 +0000

@Peregrin: Thanks for the book rec! Just the word “renaissance” has me :) I’m on it…

By: Peregrin

Peregrin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:24:16 +0000

@Annie: first of all, good for you! :) Keep pursuing those passions. I recently read a book called The Renaissance Soul by Margaret Lobenstine which is perfect for those of us who are naturally ‘jacks of all trades’. I loved it, and I think you might, too.

@Clay: I agree with Annie–keep up the good work! :)

By: Annie

Annie — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:46:51 +0000

Clay, I’m a new reader and I love this site! This interview was really terrific and I almost think that it was geared straight to me :) Last October, I quit a high-paying, high-life-sucking job. Literally every single friend and family member I knew thought, that at 27, I was making a miserable, foolish mistake.

I haven’t gone to work since. Instead, I took a 10 month “incubation” period where I did a number of system resets. First, I sold over $5000 worth of low value items on Ebay. All of a sudden, even the hint of clutter made me mental. That problem got solved. I ditched 2 toxic relationships and felt lighter the instant I did so. I lost 20 pounds that I didn’t really realize I had gained. I have read countless books and started selling the finished ones on Amazon. My bookshelf is nearly empty! I developed a really awesome personal finance system that works like a charm and…as you mention in this interview…I installed a new operating system :)

Best of all, I hardly recognize the person I was a year ago. I don’t know where my brain must have been in order to string along so many consecutive days of being paralyzed with short & long term hyperactive goal setting, being “sooooo busy” and “impossible to get ahold of.” What was I thinking?

By the end of the summer, I should have the beginnings of some new plans in place. I will have a new job that allows me to keep very moderate hours in a field that I really find interesting. Best of all, I’ll be called upon to do quite a bit of writing which will help my 2nd venture: blogging. I finally think that I mustered the courage to start a blog and I’m calling it “The Hobbiest.”

During this time off, stringent relatives would endlessly say, “So what DOES your ideal career look like? You’d be a good lawyer!” Rolling my eyes, I thought, in a perfect world, I just want to pursue my hobbies! For a living! So the blog will be my day-to-day account of getting knee deep in every single hobby I love! Piano, travel, ballet, writing, current events, reading, personal finance, cooking, sailing, speaking french…..jack of all, master of none :) But here’s to designing a life that has room for everything.

Keep up the great work. It’s extra inspiring!

By: Tim Brownson

Tim Brownson — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:50:10 +0000

You guys are waaaay behind. We’ve been hacking in the UK since the 1800′s and we even invented Hacking Jackets to Hack in. Do you have any special attire to hack in? I think not.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:51:45 +0000

Excellent blog. Very insightful and refreshing!

I, like most Americans, grew up with the notion that there is essentially one Path…

go to college > get “real” job > buy house > keep up with Jones’s > climb corporate ladder > retire > die

That’s probably a little overly simplified, but I think that’s pretty much how I saw life up to a few years ago. I’m trying to change all of that in my life now and it’s great to have people like you that can help wake up and inspire the rest of us to find ourselves and change our lives.

Again, great blog! Really looking forward to “Project Liberation”