to apply maximum strenuous effort in less time my cofounder and i use pair programming on unsolved problems (not cookie cutter silicon valley baloney), to be ab

to apply maximum strenuous effort in less time my cofounder and i use pair programming on unsolved problems (not cookie cutter silicon valley baloney), to be able to pair and control technology stack we needed to start a company, to do this we needed money (alot) so i freelanced for two years at ever higher rates, to high rate freelance successfully you need portfolio proving skill so before that i refused to work for companies that don't keep up with open source, which means you need to have a nose for knowing what the best technology is/will be (and be right), to develop the nose i worked through a few books a year in free time and learned a new language every year and have taken multiple three month periods off to learn something deeply. Each of these offtime periods has ended with me having zero savings and the first time 10k credit card debt, but a 30% raise at next gig will erase that. My first offtime period was Recurse Center. TLDR carve out your own path and make your own luck. Look at your best software role model (Mine is probably Rich Hickey) - did he wait around for opportunity to come to him or did he go out and make something happen?