Ask HN: Am I crazy? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Am I crazy?

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Post by rman666 » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 2:23 AM UTC

Heck, tell the entrepreneurs your interviewing your story and ask if you can sleep in their offices for the night. You'll probably get the real story if you spend a few hours with them after hours anyway.

Aye, [do your tour-of-interviews] and you may [go broke]. [Stay home], and you'll [save $20/day] ... at least a while. And [loosing your soul] in your [cubicle], many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and [do your tour-of-interviews] and tell [our corporate overlords] that they may take our [souls], but they'll never take... OUR [DREAMS]!

Re: Ask HN: Am I crazy?

#72

Post by bufordtwain » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 2:27 AM UTC

You might be a little crazy. Why don't you put the money in the bank for now and find some entrepreneurs to talk to in Chicago instead of chasing all over the place? You have 37signals in Chicago and Adrian Holovaty of Django/Everyblock and that's just off the top of my head. If you want to go on the road that could be fun as well but just saying.

Re: Ask HN: Am I crazy?

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Post by jacoblyles » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 2:29 AM UTC

Sure. Why not? Just make sure you have someone that can send you $20 if you run out of food.

Oh, and I'm in San Diego and should have a couch that you can crash on. Email is in the profile.

Re: Ask HN: Am I crazy?

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Post by stavrianos » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 2:35 AM UTC

jbarciauskas wrote: post #65

joshuarr wrote: post #52

You can either do it, or always wish you did. Your choice.

I think there's a corollary to this - if it turns out you don't always wish you did, it probably wasn't that great. The question then becomes, how certain are you this is something you will always regret having not done?

there's a simple experiment for this- just put off doing it for some length of time and measure your regret at intervals. After waiting long enough that you're pretty sure you'll regret it forever, you can do it.

Re: Ask HN: Am I crazy?

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Post by dpcan » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 2:40 AM UTC

jhancock wrote: post #68

jbarciauskas wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think there's a corollary to this - if it turns out you don't always wish you did, it probably wasn't that great. The question then becomes, how certain are you this is something you will always regret having not done?

The problem is you do not know if its something you regret until you have the regret. From my experience, the more regrets you accumulate, the more you learn to not have them and enjoy the process of life.

He doesn't have to "regret" having not done it, just "wish" he had done it for it to torment him forever.

Re: Ask HN: Am I crazy?

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Post by ninjaa » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 3:00 AM UTC

you can telecommute.

Re: Ask HN: Am I crazy?

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Post by jhancock » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 3:05 AM UTC

dpcan wrote: post #75

jhancock wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is you do not know if its something you regret until you have the regret. From my experience, the more regrets you accumulate, the more you learn to not have them and enjoy the process of life.

He doesn't have to "regret" having not done it, just "wish" he had done it for it to torment him forever.

I don't mean regret having "not" done it. I'm talking about regrets from doing things and "failing" or fear of that happening.

Re: Ask HN: Am I crazy?

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Post by mynameishere » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 3:27 AM UTC

I have no idea what you're asking. 1500 dollars isn't much money, so you should probably get a job, at least until you sort out your thoughts.

Re: Ask HN: Am I crazy?

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Post by natrius » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 3:33 AM UTC

hristov wrote: post #36

Sorry to rain on your parade but perhaps you should think about getting a job first. Your savings are not much and if that is all you have in the whole world you can easily get in trouble (imagine, for example a car crash in the middle of nowhere). And even if everything goes smoothly you can find yourself at the end of your adventure with no money at all. Of course you can set up a donations site but you never know…

It sounds like his mom is willing to back him up if he goes broke. If that's the case, I don't see any reason not to do it.

If you make it to Austin, you can probably sleep on my air mattress and I might be able to introduce you to a couple of people.

Re: Ask HN: Am I crazy?

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Post by natch » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 4:27 AM UTC

Damn, I wish I was in the position to think that $1500 was a good chunk of money.

Yes, you're crazy, which is a good thing. Embrace it. Do it while you can.