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Frosted Flakes: A Happy Life

You may have heard that Microsoft co-founder and owner of multiple professional sports teams Paul Allen died at age 65. In the article below, he talks about the time when he left his day-to-day job at Microsoft. He was recovering from his first bout with cancer and caught coworkers discussing ways to push him out. After a confrontation, he was asked to stay, but his decision came down to one thing...

I now understood that life was too short to spend it unhappily

Allen didn’t cut all ties with the job that made him unhappy.