"The bare minimum to keep myself distracted and fed was all I did even though so much more was possible. I told myself I liked the freedom, but in truth I was just too scared and had too low of self esteem to take on a more comfortable lifestyle." I don't know whether i fit this description. But it just did resonate with me. Am not homeless but still live at my moms house (27yrs old). Never really held down a real job (9-5) for all i can rememeber. Been moving from web app after web app hoping i could build/stumble upon something that can improve my livelihood but zero and it feels like am really running out of time.
Everyone has a internal "thermostat" of how much they deserve to make. After they get above that, then they feel bad about making more and don't usually do any work.
"A company that's not good at marketing and
sales doesn't stay a company - no matter how
good the products are ;-)".
does a product that grows due to word of mouth amount to good marketing? i believe not. dropbox, github and recently put.io. i learnt about these products because of word of mouth e.g show hn not Google ads or some youtube marketing gimmick. i tend to use a product if a friend i know is immune to FOMO recommends it to me.
Thanks for the link. I remember the first time i made a really silly comment without reading the full story i was put into place (downvoted ruthlessly) by the community and i knew i had done something terrible. This is the post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825177. From then on i really took sometime without commenting on hn not because i was angry, but because i was scared of being downvoted. It taught me i needed to get my facts right before commenting on hn however much harm i never meant to cause.
Am jealous. Why the fuck didn't i think of this before. Am from Africa. Everyone needs help up in this bitch. Guess what? I got caught up with these 30 under 30 posts and how i made n amount of $$ in n amount of years. Thank you Watsi. I don't i have to make a profit to a make difference. Thank you.
The weird thing about Kiva is they "lie" as an efficiency optimization -- it's not direct payment from donor to the identified recipient, but to the organization which helped the recipient in the past. This isn't really worse from a moral perspective (and is actually more efficient!), but might make some donors unhappy. A Kiva which operated fully on the Watsi model of identifying/funding specific things in realtime would be popular with at least some existing Kiva donors.
“You need to stop comparing our internal issues with their press releases”. This out to be taken to a broader point of view like for example life itself. We end up comparing ourselves to other peoples outside appearances and in the end find ourselves burnt-out not knowing it never was greener on the other side. It was all keeping up appearances.
"It's an overstatement to say that the idea of Viaweb was too strong to fail. We came close to failing several times." Sounds polite and down to earth but its very true. Google, Microsoft am sure they all had times when they came close to failing. That's the good thing about being successful. The hard times are forgotten by everyone (mostly the naysayers) else apart from the person/people who really felt them most thus making that success bitter sweet.
Ruby on rails, postgres, Amazon aws, heroku, engine yard, C#, .net and currently working on my first python app.
contact: capdiz@yahoo.com