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Ask HN: What would make your life better?
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Re: Ask HN: What would make your life better?
#22Being dead.
Re: Ask HN: What would make your life better?
#23More money.
The other day here I saw an Ask HN about how to enter the "$300K club". While I have a low cost of living abroad ($600/mo total), I'd be super happy to enter the $1K/mo club, and over the moon if I could get it up to $2K. For that, I'd need a better understanding of my skill set as well as how to develop a better one.
If you are any good, I think you're better off developing a network or looking for customers than spending too much time over-polishing your skills.
Patrick McKenzie's advice is good, see:
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...
And I've also read some really good advice here on HN.
My own personal experience: Based on what I believed to be an unmet need/new opportunity, I built a pretty small project. With help from the university I graduated from, I got contacts with the local business community, and now I have more leads (not yet customers) than I have time (I'm currently full-time employed).
Businessmen were really kind and gave me 15 minutes to listen to their needs and pitch my product. We over-estimate the difficulty of securing a meeting (that's not the same as securing a sale though).
Re: Ask HN: What would make your life better?
#24I like speeding time reading Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth, the God word.