if you want to become an entrepreneur and don't have much to your name, a software biz is still your best shot at wealth generation. at least when you fail - and you will fail for a while before you succeed - you won't have crippling debt or leftover inventory in your kitchen

imagine davinci standing in front of the canvas and saying to himself, "time to make some content".

people fear breaking the illusion of their own competence, thus staying in the comfort of inaction

businesses will build in-house SaaS at the same rate as people host mail servers at home: <1%.

no serious business is going to vibe code a spreadsheet or an email server. why would they spend time and mental capacity on non-core competencies that will be worse in every way (i don't even like zoho)

coding bootcamps. beanies. craft beer. CSS-Tricks. hipster beards. duck lips. khan academy. you don't see them anymore. not lindy.

look at that off-yellow coloring, the tasteful arches in it. oh my God, it even has an oriel.

i can count 30, maybe 40 days in a year where i work a lot and make the most progress for that year. on other days, i either do some admin work or just can't bring myself to do anything.

opened sublime text and hand wrote css like it's 2012 just to feel something

it's true that once you make visible progress in one avenue of your life, you escape the inertia and start making headway in others. it's as if your brain gets a signal that another life is possible.

it'd be easier to invert the question: "what shouldn't i work on?"

his way of life is a bit too feral for me, but still, respect for going off the beaten path and trying to find an alternative. you don't have to load up on debt, work the job you dislike (to put it mildly) and lie to yourself daily; another life is possible.

now that i almost finished reading LotR, I wish they didn't do Aragorn dirty. he wasn't a reluctant king - he knew exactly who he was and what his quest was.

to slop is human

i want to build a bookkeeping app. i still manually reconcile 3000+ transactions every year, while xero keeps jacking up prices every 4 months. how hard could it be?

g wagon balenciaga