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No, you cannot do all those things and more while working. You can't even get a taste, it's more akin to looking through a store window.

It's not possible to fully experience a foreign country/culture in a 1 week vacation.

No idea about surfing, but it's not possible to even get a sense of what skiing has to offer in a couple of weekends a year.

Maybe, for a few people, it's possible to find the motivation and energy to fully immerse yourself in working on your own software after already having put in a full day of work, but they are in a tiny minority.




I’ve known too many folks dead by 30 to take advice from someone advocating for “boring_twenties”.

This is the only life we’ve got. Don’t spend it bored.


It sounds like parody of roaring twenties. It’s probably a pun on the decade.


You're responding to my username, instead of my comment?




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