"Recognizing the artificial/restrictions and subverting it to make your life better" - I think we all strive to do that. Like you, I have some reserves will the article, but it definitely rings a bell.
Yet how exactly is creating a company any better? If you keep servicing other people interest, it could be called an illusion of freedom. You will compromise yourself at a time or another.
If you hire people to really get your freedom, it's subjugating others, and it may not be any better if you consider other persons besides yourself also matter.
"Yet how exactly is creating a company any better? If you keep servicing other people interest, it could be called an illusion of freedom"
If you sell a product or service, you get to choose what goes into that product or service. Look at apple: If they listened to the general public, the Ipad would have never been released.
" You will compromise yourself at a time or another."
You don't ever need to. Plenty of companies release what they want and it just so happens to coincide with what other people want.
Yet how exactly is creating a company any better? If you keep servicing other people interest, it could be called an illusion of freedom. You will compromise yourself at a time or another.
If you hire people to really get your freedom, it's subjugating others, and it may not be any better if you consider other persons besides yourself also matter.
There's another great article on HN at the moment - passion and professionalism (http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6523/the_designers_not...), that explores this on a one-person basis.
Passion is great but it can become a self-imposed slavery too.