"No Exit makes it very clear that the life of a startup founder is a miserable one, and that engineers are invariably happier when they’re working for a big company."
Any book that tries to tell me how I'm supposed to be happy is automatically placed in the same category as religious texts.
I'm not supporting this particular book, but there is plenty of great research about what correlates to happiness. Here's a great post to read that links to tons of research on the topic: http://lesswrong.com/lw/4su/how_to_be_happy/
That depends how you define happiness. For some people, simply pursuing their dream makes them the happiest. It may be painful, miserable, and ultimately end in failure, but for a certain set of people that's the only way they can live.
Any book that tries to tell me how I'm supposed to be happy is automatically placed in the same category as religious texts.