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  • Bad take.

    Code is about working with a limited set of tools and making them work for whatever task is in front of you.

    Inspiration is from interacting with something and receiving insight.

    The best coders meld the two and push the industry forward. If you impose self limitations like this on yourself, then you’ll never advance yourself.

    This is like saying you read lord of the rings and now can’t play DND because the fantasy source material was ‘stolen’.








  • I traveled for a year with a group of 50 remote workers. By the end of the year, we had about 25 remote workers and 25 people running off their savings accounts. Two big things.

    1. Life abroad can be relatively cheap, we were able to get housing, office space, and air travel for under $2k a month, which is cheaper than I was paying for my apt in the US.

    2. When you live in a different time zone like in Europe, but work US hours, you get those extra hours to do fun stuff. I typically started work around 4pm and worked until 12am, meaning I could wake up late, go take a 1 hour walking tour of the city, try out some of the restaurants and still be back for my morning meeting.

    This also means that evening exhaustion only applies to your work rather than your fun and no one ever says they wished they had worked harder on their death bed…