I love to work.
Like most humans, I’m driven to build stuff. Grow wealth, opportunity, freedom, and influence. I get excited by building companies, technological growth, and personal growth.
But why?
You could chalk it up to materialism and say it’s a sickness of market culture. I don’t. That’s not why I do stuff. I’m interested in living free, finding truth, and feeling peace and beauty. Those aren’t acquired by worldly success or money. But the things required to move towards them often result in worldly success and money.
To find truth, to live free and feel fully alive, I need growth. Growth happens by overcoming meaningful challenges. Meaningful challenges almost always come from the process of building stuff. Building stuff takes work. That’s why I do it and that’s why I love it.
I build stuff because it’s the path to freedom and truth.