Power Is Overrated
Power is important. The author himself writes about how he has spent X years trying to get more power&#x2F;money when he can now just move to the countryside and enjoy life. And write when he wants. This is power.<p>Which to me, is not something an Intern would right, as you have student loans to pay, perhaps dreams to build. When you are successful and write for NY Times, or code for Google for a few years, it is easy to write &quot;Ah, fuck this shit! I can now move to the country side and do whatever I want, but I don&#x27;t do this. Will this be my last year here?&quot;, because even though you don&#x27;t notice, you are very powerful. You have financial independence to do this, because you have fought very hard to go big on your career. So essentially, you have power, even if you don&#x27;t write for NY Times, or if you aren&#x27;t POTUS anymore. You made some big bucks or respect, that enables you do to things most people can&#x27;t even dream of.<p>Then it looks &quot;Overrated&quot;. What I think is Overrated is being poor and left behind. Financial independence is one of the most powerful things one can have. Sure, most of the people after they have it, they still work and run after more power and money. But having a little bit of power and money is one of the most important things in life, without that, you have no leverage in society to be free.<p>If after this you will chose to seek more power, that&#x27;s your choice. Coming back to my initial example, if you were the intern that can barely eat lunch with your colleges and your mom is sick and need money... shoveling shit to become more power seems like a good thing.