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I wish I had this advice sooner. The new part for me here, beyond merely keeping a paper trail, is to make sure that everyone knows about your consistently kept paper trail, so tha…

I've been told that opportunities are easier to spot in areas where you don't spend a lot of time. I'm guessing that this is because you haven't already accepted the status quo in …

Yes, it does. I missed that. :-)

Edit: there's a correction on this in the child comments. The math on this is misleading. $10k invested for 30 years to become $1M implies an interest rate of 16.6%. Even as a nomi…

Yeah, I've been intrigued by this cognitive dissonance for a while. Are we going to visit, or would contaminating the planet be a disaster for science and our understanding of the …

Yes, like MS, type 1 diabetes is considered to be an autoimmune disease. It's surprising to me as someone who hasn't studied medicine how related to each other autoimmune issues se…

This reminds me of autoimmune disease like MS. They are more common in higher latitudes (where there happens to be less sunlight), and there is a connection to low Vitamin D that i…

But could we please make "Software Artist" happen?

Very cool interview, but I'm struggling to understand it. Consider tweaking the acoustics of your recording space to reduce reverb.

Agreed about the confusion and that this is cool.

I'm not really sure about this metaphor, but I love what Schoenberg had to say in Harmonielehre about choosing voice registers in the parts you write. It never occurred to me how m…

I once joined a successful, for-profit, private company, because I liked its mission, despite being offered lower compensation and benefits than I could have accepted elsewhere. Th…

It depends on how they enforce it. One of my former employers would pay out unused vacation days under vaguely defined terms of being in good standing with the company, which I und…

Thanks! This is good, practical advice.

Three months is aggressive and not standard. This is a red flag in my book. To me it means that very ugly situations come up in the company, and they feel the need to lessen your a…

Could you explain why you think six months is good? Is the goal to get investors within that six months? Or revenue?

That is not a lot of runway. What happened to make it work for you? Did you get investors or revenue within those three months?

Hey everyone, thank you for these replies! All of them were helpful. I came up with these takeaways: - Frame your services as creating solutions to business problems, rather than t…

Hey, thanks for your reply. Would you say that this low bar means that for an actually good contractor, there's a lot of opportunity for word-of-mouth references, repeat business r…

Hi HN, I'd like to switch to doing my work as an independent contractor. The web technologies I'd like to work with are somewhat new to me, but I'm getting good at them. The questi…