Alvin Lai

How to do what you love

1. Realize that you can love work
2. Most of the time, a college student would be wrong about knowing what he loves - working on severely limited information
3. Seek jobs that let you do many different things, so you can learn faster what various kinds of work are like
4. Constraints give your life shape, remove them and most people don't know what to do - lottery winners
5. Always produce
6. Do a good job to make sure you're not using dissatisfaction as an excuse for being lazy - gets into the habit of doing things well.
7. Finding work you love requires discipline.
8. Don't be distracted by prestige and money.

Salient points from Paul Graham, founder of ViaWeb