In the context of the previous post, this week, while commuting, I read
three articles that are worthy of note (and not related to these
depressing elections)

– Startups as the deferred life plan : beautifully written, but no longer
an option for all the commitments I’ve already made:
https://medium.com/@casey_rosengren/startups-are-the-new-deferred-life-plan-7f23d06eb1f3

– People who love their commute are those who bike to work (absolutely
true: I loved it when I biked to work, and dislike it now that I can no
longer do it):
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/a-mystery-the-people-who-enjoy-commuting/474138/

– Changing jobs in midcareer is difficult and risky to the point of
impossibility but important to happiness for those who succeeded at it
(something that I intuitively realized, tried and failed at)
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/quit-your-job/471501/
There is zero sense of purpose in what I’m doing right now. This company is
fin-tech equivalent of Valeant: less nefarious only because it doesn’t make
money off regular people’s health, but the business model is pretty much
the same.

Where that leaves me I have no idea, but it certainly doesn’t make me feel
better about the future.