Home / The Point of Life (June 2026)

In interviews, I often ask people how they define success. They almost always respond with, "...in life or business?" and I've found that I much prefer the answers about life.

When I was younger, I used to spend a lot of time thinking about this question and trying to come up with a single "right" answer for my life. However, as I've gotten older, I've noticed that my answer keeps changing along the way.

Today, my copout answer if people ask me this question in return, is repeating the quote, "If there was a point to life, we wouldn't be free." However, my real answer, at least in this chapter of my life, is that the point of life is to do whatever feels most true in the moment.

What has felt most true for most of my life is some combination of purpose and play. Finding purpose in things like work is important, because it makes me feel satisfied in the longrun. Whereas play is equally important, because let's face it, I like to have fun right now, too.

I like thinking about the point of life this way because it gives me wiggle room to change. When I was little I was focused on learning skills, then exploring, then helping people, then learning about myself, then having fun, and now I'm more focused on family and balance.

In 20 years, who knows what I'll be focused on. Maybe I'll spend more time in nature, get back into nonprofits or perhaps I'll do a bunch of DMT and explore the hyperverse. Whatever I do, I just hope it's what feels true.

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse has long been one of my favorite books. I appreciate how short and simple the book is, but at a deeper level, I love how great of a job it does at portraying a go with the flow approach to life.