I didn&#x27;t mean to imply I didn&#x27;t have advantages ... just being born where I was was a tremendous advantage.  On the other hand, I wasn&#x27;t a legacy dumped into an Ivy League college, I wasn&#x27;t handed a trust fund or even enough money to even live for a month.<p>My parents wanted me to follow the &quot;safe path&quot;, to be the &#x27;50s style company man who would work his 40 years and retire with a good pension.  They wouldn&#x27;t endorse the life I ended up living.  I was however encouraged to be curious and the &quot;hack&quot;.  That was an amazing gift and I am in fact grateful for my privileged upbringing - I&#x27;m just not tanned from laying on the beach at the Hamptons.