Working at Starbucks better than working in advertising

You simply gotta read this story in The New York Times today about a former advertising executive, who, now says he is happily working at a Starbucks in Bronxville, NY and living in an attic apartment across the street, rather than in the imposing tudor elsewhere in town in which he grew up. A former JWT creative and son of The New Yorker's Brendan Gill, the story isn't entirely as it seems. He's written a book, “How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else,” that has been optioned by Tom Hanks, though he claims he still wants to work at Starbucks, even as potential riches flow in. In a video accompanying the story, shot, mainly, in his patio-furniture decorated apartment, he says, with utmost sincerity, "I've gone from stuff, to lack of stuff, and the surprise—the great surprise—is how happy it makes me."