I don't think that chasing money is a good idea at all. However if one is looking to create change, with actual external results to show for one's passionate labour, one has to come to grips with the market. Sustainable, continuous innovation is something that I personally value more than a life time of ideas with no results to speak of. I definitely admire Tesla and Edison. I only seek to emulate Edison more.
So the other day I was wondering what Elon Musk was up to when he was my age and had to dig through his biography and an online timeline to find out. I thought it would be cool to have an easy way to benchmark my life against the lives of the greatest in Tech, so I built it. Enjoy!
"Try to get something done every day" has been the hardest and most rewarding part for me. It seems like it is mostly just reconciling long term and short term incentives. I'm incentivized tin the long run to finish and launch my side project but there are a ton of other short term incentives competing for my time today.
I put together https://codeorelse.com to help me with that. If I don't push to GiHub on a day, I have to pay $1 (or more if i want). Seems to be helping.
I used to work nights and go to school during the day so I learned really quickly how to break my sleep into 90min cycles. This kept me functional however, a string of successive sleep cycles let's you get a much deeper and energizing rest, in my experience.