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Wow, and he did it all before the age of 30. I feel like a loser.



Nah, don't worry about it. If you read his bio it says that he started when he was 10yrs old creating websites and then interned at Netscape at age 14. He started quite young and it's obvious that his value systems at that age were quite different from most people.

I however, would not have given up my childhood for any amount of success or achievement. That stuff could have waited. I'm not even the least bit jealous of him because it's clear that him and I had different value systems. I had so much fun trading pokemon cards with my friends and running around in the neighborhood park. Screw going to Stanford at 15.

I do want to make it very very clear that this is not a criticism of Blake. I have tremendous respect for his accomplishments and his hilarious screenwriting. I just wanted to point out that it's not all roses and that people can frame these achievements in the context of different value systems.




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