Great perspective IMO.
My product is my garden
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#102This was really awesome! I think that many people are so focused on success we don't take the time to enjoy our garden! The best part of building is the being so hands on, especially when it comes to talking with consumers and hearing about problems, or even building out the product and putting your special touch on it. I will make sure to enjoy my garden this week, and observe how I help it grow to ensure what I'm doing is truly sustainable!
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#103Some of my products are experiments. Just experiments, I want to check if some thing is possible.
Some of my products are challenges. I don't know how to do it, and just wish to know if I can figure it out.
Some are personal needs. I need something, I can't find a solution that meets my need, I solve it.
Some are art and therapeutic like gardening. Working on them gives me joy and relaxes me.
Some are business. The intent is to make money.
I'm sure folks can find many ways to think about their products, at the end of the day, it's all in your head.
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#104Pangloss, who was as inquisitive as he was argumentative, asked the old man what the name of the strangled Mufti was. ‘I don’t know,’ answered the worthy man, ‘and I have never known the name of any Mufti, nor of any Vizier. I have no idea what you’re talking about; my general view is that people who meddle with politics usually meet a miserable end, and indeed they deserve to. I never bother with what is going on in…
The families I know who live best are permaculturalists. Visiting them for dinner is always a treat. It's hard work though, and like others they have supplemental income. I imagine this old man knows well the trick: an independent life is impossible unless you have enough healthy young people around to do the labour.
I agree it's hard work. Every project seems like it will take an hour at the outset, but ends up taking eight hours due to a wide variety of unexpected real world complications.
I traded in a beautiful city home for 106 acres at the beginning of the pandemic and am still glad I did. People have a fantasy picture of the tradeoff though... In reality, in rural places you have less social interaction and the people are of a lower caliber than urban areas. You can't make money farming unless you do it at massive scale, so I still work just as much online as before. Only now my free time goes into farming instead of golf or restaurants.
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#105Pangloss, who was as inquisitive as he was argumentative, asked the old man what the name of the strangled Mufti was. ‘I don’t know,’ answered the worthy man, ‘and I have never known the name of any Mufti, nor of any Vizier. I have no idea what you’re talking about; my general view is that people who meddle with politics usually meet a miserable end, and indeed they deserve to. I never bother with what is going on in…
The families I know who live best are permaculturalists. Visiting them for dinner is always a treat. It's hard work though, and like others they have supplemental income. I imagine this old man knows well the trick: an independent life is impossible unless you have enough healthy young people around to do the labour.
"an independent life is impossible unless you have enough healthy young people around to do the labour."
Or about $1 million stashed in index funds, give or take based on cost of living in your location.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is Basecamp really the example to aspire to? Being the developer of Rails and ActiveRecord and fostering and milking that would be the software equivalent of Peter Frampton, and I mean that in the most positive way. I think we know that we’re not all going platinum. This article was about just “working on the song(s)” for the enjoyment of it, whatever that may involve, or that’s the way I took it.
> Being the developer of Rails and ActiveRecord and fostering and milking that It's not entirely fair thing to say as DHH's rise to fame was really on both fronts in parallel, actually I remember that one of the selling points for ruby/RoR thing early on was that "the basecamp was built on it". Most of people (me included) never even heard of Ruby before they've made it popular, and they could do that partially thank…
Now I really know I'm getting old, when I've gone past nostalgia for the 1980s 8-bit era and even Web 2.0 feels like a distant, but warm and fuzzy memory...
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#107I love this and I aspire to eventually, if I come out of the grinder with any ambition, drive, or passion left, do something similar. I abhor big corpratism, and love the way software can be independent and disconnected from it, if not usually in practice. I deeply admire Basecamp's style of "you don't need VC money, keep it small, keep building something useful that gets you paid." I want that someday but someday is…
> I deeply admire Basecamp's style of "you don't need VC money, keep it small, keep building something useful that gets you paid. Honestly, DHH looks to me and comes across to me as extremely burnt out to an unhealthy point. I wouldn't want to aspire what he has become. He doesn't strike me as someone like the author of Bear Blog who just enjoys puttering along. He comes across as someone who constantly stresses hims…
> As a result he seems to be constantly arguing and lecturing people on social media to a point where it feels difficult to watch.
I think that's just his personality, regardless of his perceived success or lack thereof.
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#108Pangloss, who was as inquisitive as he was argumentative, asked the old man what the name of the strangled Mufti was. ‘I don’t know,’ answered the worthy man, ‘and I have never known the name of any Mufti, nor of any Vizier. I have no idea what you’re talking about; my general view is that people who meddle with politics usually meet a miserable end, and indeed they deserve to. I never bother with what is going on in…
And also check out the concept of the Epicurean garden, which is what Voltaire is referring to:
https://www.18thcenturycommon.org/cultivating-philosophy-in-...
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
The families I know who live best are permaculturalists. Visiting them for dinner is always a treat. It's hard work though, and like others they have supplemental income. I imagine this old man knows well the trick: an independent life is impossible unless you have enough healthy young people around to do the labour.
"an independent life is impossible unless you have enough healthy young people around to do the labour." Or about $1 million stashed in index funds, give or take based on cost of living in your location.
Or around $600K in down payments in cash flowing rental properties in the US...
My wife and I spent around $75K to get approximately $1K a month in cash flow (5 doors, $200 each)...