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forwardslash  ·  4116 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why I Left Google

    Frankly, she's lucky she has options. Too many people don't, at least not good ones. This is certainly a first world problem.

Very true, and I must say I'm jealous of the opportunity to even walk away from something like Google. One of the things I love about this story, however, is that it is a classic example of a person going through Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Perhaps that's just because I finished a first year Psych course.

Still, I find these kind of stories interesting; the sort of, "Even with all my ambition and success I was still wanting for something more" story. I just finished reading David Mitchell's Back Story and it's rather similar. A memoir of achieving great ambition (he's followed in the footsteps of people like Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie) and inevitably realizing he's been missing something huge.