How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub (2008)
An interesting story. One observation:"[...]  At 29 years old, I was the oldest of the three GitHubbers, and had accumulated a proportionally larger amount of debt and monthly expenditure. I was used to my six digit lifestyle. [...]"Now, how does it happen that a guy earning six figures "accumulates a large debt" over time?