Chasing the Derivative

From a recent Wired Magazine this was what a 19 year old founder of ChatGPTZero said when asked about what he thinks about doing in life.

Chasing the Derivate

is what he said. 

It's an interesting idea and seems a good philosophy to follow in life. 

As per Khanacademy, this is the meaning of the mathematical term *Derivative*

The derivative of a function describes the function's instantaneous rate of change at a certain point. Another common interpretation is that the derivative gives us the slope of the line tangent to the function's graph at that point.

Pleasure or Pain is associated with Change in our state. If you are in the stable state and following a function which is a straight line, then the derivate of that function is 0 or a constant. And when you are in this state, then there's no excitement, and life gets boring.

This is my interpretation of what he meant. 

But as a counterpoint, you can follow the path of a circle and keeping going along the circle and chasing the derivative, but why? Is life always going to be a chase? From one thing to the other, one experience to the other.. continue chasing the ever unsatisfactory impulses/desires?