Hey Rami, I've seen plenty of people asking about how you deal with traveling so much, but what about others? How much are your friends, family and fans affected by it? Do you feel like you get to spend enough time with them?
Oh my, this is a painful question. A really good one too.
So the honest answer is: I think they kind of just deal with it. I know it's put strain on my relationship with my family several times and Vlambeer and travel certainly broke up two romantic relations I've had.
There's such an elaborate balancing act meandering as a red line through my life: family, friends, development, advocacy, PR, sideprojects, helping devs out, going to emerging territories - it's super hard to kind of care about pretty much everybody and wanting to do the right thing, but know you kind of have to make sacrifices. Very often, those sacrifices are social. Ironically, what I get back for that is also social. I'm not sure - I'm still figuring out how to combine being a dev with being somewhat of a public figure with having a life.
Ironically, I'm typing this in the dark while my girlfriend fell asleep an hour ago, and I feel kind of bad about that. I guess I'll shut down now.
Thanks for the question!
So the honest answer is: I think they kind of just deal with it. I know it's put strain on my relationship with my family several times and Vlambeer and travel certainly broke up two romantic relations I've had.
There's such an elaborate balancing act meandering as a red line through my life: family, friends, development, advocacy, PR, sideprojects, helping devs out, going to emerging territories - it's super hard to kind of care about pretty much everybody and wanting to do the right thing, but know you kind of have to make sacrifices. Very often, those sacrifices are social. Ironically, what I get back for that is also social. I'm not sure - I'm still figuring out how to combine being a dev with being somewhat of a public figure with having a life.
Ironically, I'm typing this in the dark while my girlfriend fell asleep an hour ago, and I feel kind of bad about that. I guess I'll shut down now.
Thanks for the question!