Aspire to be like Aaron Schwartz.
Kind of a cliche, but aspire to be the best version yourself every day. Learn from the successes and failures of others, but don't aspire to be anyone else because eventually you'll be very disappointed.
He was lovely. And a genius. Maybe he changed, but he was a truly nice person.
But yes.
But survive. This too will pass.
Striving for good isn’t gonna be fun all the time, but when choosing role models I like to factor in how happy they seem. I’d like to spend some time happy.
And then later they go to the school to teach our future, working with high stress and low salary.
Same with medical school in many countries where healthcare is not privatized. Insane hours, huge responsibilities and poor pay for doctors and nurses in many countries.
Nowadays everyone wants to be an influencer or software developer.
(Since we are dreaming, can I add sane hours for medical doctors (like <= 8 per day)?)
edit: It appears I'm wrong. Will someone correct me on what he did?
Again, I'm not offering an opinion on it.
He didn't do it without authorization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
> Visitors to MIT's "open campus" were authorized to access JSTOR through its network.
