You didn't get to the point about how if you died anything but alone and penniless, you hadn't done your job. To me, that doesn't sound like a business plan for anyone on HN.
You committed the same sin the article was talking about: you celebrated it while ignoring its major point. ;-)
Some cursory googling did not reveal Walter Cronkite's net worth, but I did find an article suggesting that his kids were concerned about how much he was going to leave to his girl friend compared to them. So alone and penniless does not seem to apply to Walter, either.
You committed the same sin the article was talking about: you celebrated it while ignoring its major point. ;-)