
…who frequently fantasizes about the faraway, imagined pleasures of retirement, I quickly responded, “But weren’t those the most stressful times of your lives?” Yes of course, they all agreed. But there was no doubt that those days were also the happiest.
It’s tough to value anything we don’t pay for, and easy to forget that where you stand is already on the shoulders of giants. Inherited technology, like inherited wealth, can blind us to its beauty and the human sacrifices that were made to bring us this knowledge.