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A New Plan for Getting Rich

Photo Credit: The Internet’s Keegan Jones

The Internet was on fire yesterday with the story of Facebook’s biggest and (depending on how you read Zuck’s post) possibly last major acquisition: $1B in cash and stock for Instagram. You’ve read all about it, and truly I can’t say enough, congratulations to that team, including two good friends, engineer Philip McAllister, and design wunderkind Tim Van Damme.

Now that the surge of OMG! reporting and retweeting is over, the Internet will be on fire yet again, as people begin to discover that Instagram’s founder, who Wired says is set to pocket $400M personally in this acquisition, is not a traditional coder, but rather a marketing guy who taught himself to code at night. That’s something that always excites me: people who are so passionate about something that they are breaking through comfort zones, learning new things, pushing themselves to the max.

But I know what happens next: all the social media feeds will be full of people talking about how their plan to hit it big is just like Instagram’s code-at-night founder: to stay up late on a project, to teach themselves iOS skills, to [FILL IN THE BLANK], to emulate the path to success and riches.

If you know me at all, I am all about the working hard, the learning new things, the pushing of oneself to the limits. But as Twitter begins to buzz with all the ‘Well, if *I* can learn coding at night…’ I’d like to propose a new and simple path to riches:

1. Do something you love doing

2. Do it with people who are awesome and who you like being with

3. Don’t do any of it because you are shooting for a massive payday

This simple plan will, in fact, require a lot of hard work. It will have failures along the way, but also tremendous successes. I must warn you, though, when you achieve success, it most likely isn’t going to look like a check for one beeeeeellion dollars.

No, more often than not, it will look like this:

I sure wouldn’t mind a massive payday, an enormously sized acquisition. But I am already very, very rich. And this is a path I’m going to stay on.