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What's your definition of freedom? Freedom to make major business decisions or freedom from obligations and responsibilities? Running your own thing rarely mea
by cheetos 11y ago
What's your definition of freedom? Freedom to make major business decisions or freedom from obligations and responsibilities?
Running your own thing rarely means more free time than if you were working as a tech cog -- it often means much less free time.
- ninjakeyboard 11y agothe former :) isn't the ability to make decisions, to steer and to lead a sort of freedom? it is to me. You're right though - I attended fi.co for example and they scare people away day 1 with the expectation that a business owner needs to bleed all of their lifeblood into the business.
- jib 11y agoNot really, to me. There are (in my experience) very few companies where you have one genius spending most his time making decisions and a bunch of minions just implementing those genius decisions. If I was to estimate I would say that for every 1 hour you spend making big genius decisions, you spend 99 hours convincing people why those decisions are right, listening to why they are not right, listening to what you should be doing instead, writing reports or communications, listening to what issues people have...