Here's the Grist blurb on the writer referenced in that article:
David Roberts is Grist's staff writer.
David was born and raised in the South. A revelatory summer working in Yellowstone National Park convinced him that it was not the world, but just the part where he lived, that sucked, so he moved out West. After way too many years in Montana pursuing graduate degrees in philosophy (no, really), he was lured out of the academy by the siren song of the heralded internet "boom" -- about six months too late. He was sinking ever further into the Seattle swamp of tech work, having already hit Amazon.com, IMDb.com, and Microsoft, when the fine folks at Grist threw him a life preserver in December 2003. (Total profits from stock options: $57. Meaningful work: priceless.)
He now spends his free time playing in his new house with his new sons and his not-so-new but still-wonderful wife. He loves them, loves Seattle, loves Grist, and still, despite himself, loves the internet.
mph translation: David was a perennial college student unwilling to actually enter the world. When he finally did, he job-hopped in tech hoping for a stock option retirement that never came. Because he wasted too much time avoiding work in extended college he had missed the options boom and is mad about it. He pursued Grist endlessly for a chance to retire and wax eloquent about his philosophies, and Grist finally caved. He works from home.
(I'm only half kidding<g>) |
