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I'm a software engineer by day, father to a newborn and burning with passion for my startup.
What advice can you give to help me manage all three?
Any recommendations for tools and services to automate typical early startup tasks would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks :)
The more you want to get balance, you'll get nothing.
Make a priority, what's more important then execute it. Take break, switch task then comeback with the loop.
Not saying you cant do the rest. Failing faster will be better than any productivity tips - it will reduce the period where your splitting between day-job & startup. As if the latter is successful you'll need to ditch the former pretty quickly.
idk, this might not be the most "popular" opinion ... especially here on HN, but imho.
keep the stable job and start to appreciate your family - especially your newborn child.
time flies, and you never get back the time you are missing out with your growing child - ever!!
and this is much more rewarding than getting some stupid startup off the ground - and be serious to yourself: statistically you won't have a lot of success anyhow ;))
just my 0.02€
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Realistically the only way I was able to do it was being laid off which forced me to jump in. I had a savings and a wife who believed in me (the savings has helped her belief hah) Family is a no-compromise #1 priority for me under any and all circumstances. I don’t think it is possible for most people to do all three. At Berkeley we had a saying “you can have 2/3 of either: good grades, a social life, and sleep”. Thi…