What I Worked On
This is a good essay.<p>It&#x27;s interesting to contrast it with some of the psychological&#x2F;self-help literature around being your &quot;true self&quot;, where the true self is fluid and amorphous and avoids being rigidly defined.  Or with Drew Houston&#x27;s commmencement address [1] - &quot;That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.&quot;  Or Steve Jobs [2] - &quot;Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. 
 So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.&quot;<p>Don&#x27;t ignore your emotions, particularly the niggling feelings that make you do things that seem to have no purpose in your grand plans but nevertheless draw you along.  Don&#x27;t ignore reality either - that&#x27;d be putting art galleries online - but oftentimes our subconscious has a better grip on reality than we give it credit for.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.mit.edu&#x2F;2013&#x2F;drew-houstons-commencement-address" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.mit.edu&#x2F;2013&#x2F;drew-houstons-commencement-address</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;singjupost.com&#x2F;full-transcript-steve-jobs-stay-hungry-stay-foolish-speech-at-stanford-2005&#x2F;?singlepage=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;singjupost.com&#x2F;full-transcript-steve-jobs-stay-hungr...</a>