I got sucked into that blog post. On the surface it sounds inspiring, and if I'd read it at the time I might think "This guy is getting it all figured out." Lo and behold, he's worse off now than he's ever been (except maybe for when he was homeless) and has no plans or desire to improve his situation in any way other than begging strangers for money. Also, reading about how he was "wildly successful" and living such a good life makes me wonder what income he was making that made him feel that way. I know for me to use the language he used to describe his situation I'd have to be making close to $200k/year. But relative to his homelessness I wonder if it was more like $50k? Maybe a bit more? Overall, though, the smugness about "I got sucked into consumerism and THAT's why I let things fall apart" is just sad. It's not the Xbox, dude. It's you.