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I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.
I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.
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Yahoo Finance Wrote:It's the dream of many a startup founder: Make something people love and wind up wildly rich, selling the company for billions.
But after you do that, what comes next? It could be a sense of hopeless isolation.
So says Minecraft founder Markus Persson (aka "Notch") in a strangely revealing series of tweets.
Microsoft bought Minecraft for $2.5 billion almost a year ago, and the founder did not join Microsoft after the sale.
Persson certainly looked like he was having a blast, living the big life. He bought a $70 million mansion, complete with a massive wall of candy, and has been hosting wild parties ever since.
But he's really bored and deeply lonely, he revealed in a series of tweets.
"The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying, and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance," he tweeted.
"Hanging out in ibiza with a bunch of friends and partying with famous people, able to do whatever I want, and I've never felt more isolated."
Here's the whole tweet string:
@notch Wrote:The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying, and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance.
@notch Wrote:Hanging out in ibiza with a bunch of friends and partying with famous people, able to do whatever I want, and I've never felt more isolated.
@notch Wrote:In sweden, I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do shit, watching my reflection in the monitor.
@notch Wrote:When we sold the company, the biggest effort went into making sure the employees got taken care of, and they all hate me now.
@notch Wrote:Found a great girl, but she's afraid of me and my life style and went with a normal person instead.
@notch Wrote:I would Musk and try to save the world, but that just exposes me to the same type of assholes that made me sell minecraft again.
@notch Wrote:People who made sudden success are telling me this is normal and will pass. That's good to know! I guess I'll take a shower then!
I predicted this already when he sold off Mojang and bought a ridiculously huge house. Schooled people will take society's "success state" over everything, and then they become sad because they don't do fun things anymore while they conciously think everything is OK.
(This post was last modified: 07-09-2017 06:45 AM by sswbm.)
RE: Minecraft founder is super bored after he sold it to Microsoft and became wealthy
Nah, they just think that "fun" means "how do I exploit the flaws of the human mind to make it produce a huge-ass high for itself" and then wonder why after a few years of doing that they've become accustomed to it. (Is my bitter showing? Good.)
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This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
RE: Minecraft founder is super bored after he sold it to Microsoft and became wealthy
He can give me his wealth and go have fun again.
Id never feel bored or isolated if rich. He just doesnt know how to use the money or something. (Like dropping 70 million on a mansion with candy walls. A bit crazy and financially wacky)
RE: Minecraft founder is super bored after he sold it to Microsoft and became wealthy
He can start another one?
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
Minecraft founder is super bored after he sold it to Microsoft and became wealthy
Probably. It would kind of suck to be super rich. I mean, you get cool stuff such as candy walls and awesome mansions. But, it would get boring after a while.
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RE: Minecraft founder is super bored after he sold it to Microsoft and became wealthy
(08-31-2015 05:08 AM)SchoolSux Wrote: Probably. It would kind of suck to be super rich. I mean, you get cool stuff such as candy walls and awesome mansions. But, it would get boring after a while.
Nope. A visionary would always find some way to engage the globe with their money.
He's financially narrow-minded or simply suffering "wealth block" from the sudden windfall.
Minecraft founder is super bored after he sold it to Microsoft and became wealthy
Quote:In sweden, I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do shit, watching my reflection in the monitor.
I know this feeling.
Although I actually like being alone and doing things by myself, so it isn't much of an issue most of the time.
But yeah, he sold it because he got sick of dealing with annoying people, and now he doesn't want to do anything else because there will most likely be annoying people again. They are everywhere, though... kind of unavoidable.
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RE: Minecraft founder is super bored after he sold it to Microsoft and became wealthy
Typical richfag whining. If you honestly have ~$2.5 bil and honestly don't know what to do with it, you're a fuckhead. Despite what people get drilled in their heads during upbringing, money does indeed buy happiness. You don't see homeless people very happy very often do ya?
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RE: Minecraft founder is super bored after he sold it to Microsoft and became wealthy
(08-31-2015 02:42 PM)brainiac3397 Wrote: Money buys power and lets you create opportunities yourself. The more money, the more opportunities you can make for yourself.
Took the words right out of my mouth. He could take his money and somehow give back to the world with it in a way that will change people's lives. Or he could just get high off of his ass all of the time and never have to worry about spending so much money on drugs that he'll run out. Either way, the world is his oyster and the sooner he realizes how much freedom he has by being a billionaire the better. I find it a little ironic that the creator of a game which taps in to the player's creativity in a way no other game ever created has is finding it hard to find the creativity to figure out what he's going to do with his life.
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