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This stuff is very impressive, but why is there nothing in here about revenue? I would be really worried if I spent five years on something(s) that didn't signi

This stuff is very impressive, but why is there nothing in here about revenue? I would be really worried if I spent five years on something(s) that didn't significantly improve my financial security. I'm sure not everyone shares my priorities, but I'd guess this one is fairly common. Maybe this individual is already set on that front and I'm simply not aware of the context, but his concerns about the stability of the gaming market suggest that this is not the case.

ec109685 10y ago
At the very least, it is an amazing thing to have on his resume.
- obstinate 10y ago
  One can get amazing things on one's resume and make money at the same time. :)
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dnr 10y ago
Amit was a very very early employee at Google.
- moomin 10y ago
  Well, that answers that question.
- rl3 10y ago
  Do you have any sources for this? http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/ http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/ There's no mention of Google at all there. While the seventh employee at Google was indeed someone named Amit Patel, I'm having a very hard time linking the identities together.
  - rl3 10y ago
    Update: I wasn't able to associate any online identity information with the Amit Patel that was Google employee #7. Best I could find was references to a venture a few years back called Sunfire. Pretty sure he isn't the Amit Patel of Red Blob Games and Stanford fame. The latter probably threw off a lot of people, since Stanford CS and Google often go hand-in-hand. There's even another Amit Patel that currently works at Google, but he's a supply chain guy. As another thread confirms, it must be a quite common name: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13319232 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13319232
    - dnr 10y ago
      Can I email you instead of posting publicly?
coldtea 10y ago
>I would be really worried if I spent five years on something(s) that didn't significantly improve my financial security. Fortunately, not everybody feels like that.
- D_Guidi 10y ago
  money can be exchanged for goods and services
  - coldtea 10y ago
    Goods and services are not all there is in life. Money can't be exchanged for lost time (e.g. due to making money), strained relationships (e.g. due to making money), dreams not followed (e.g. due to making money), etc. So one has to strike a balance, and doing stuff as a hobby, without making anything money-wise, is a totally acceptable balance if you have your basic expenses (rent, food, etc) covered.
    - eschutte2 10y ago
      OP wrote "financial security," not "enormous sums of money."
      - coldtea 10y ago
        Yes, but OP also wondered why a random person will spend time studying and reporting stuff on his blog, if they don't make money out of it.
        obstinate 10y ago
        I didn't worry that he spent time studying. That is awesome! I worried that there was nothing about revenue. And I acknowledged that there may be more context (ex. the author is already independently wealthy, or the blog covers only non-commercial work).
    - adrianN 10y ago

ec109685 10y ago

At the very least, it is an amazing thing to have on his resume.

obstinate 10y ago
One can get amazing things on one's resume and make money at the same time. :)

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dnr 10y ago

Amit was a very very early employee at Google.

moomin 10y ago
Well, that answers that question.
rl3 10y ago
Do you have any sources for this? http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/ http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/ There's no mention of Google at all there. While the seventh employee at Google was indeed someone named Amit Patel, I'm having a very hard time linking the identities together.
- rl3 10y ago
  Update: I wasn't able to associate any online identity information with the Amit Patel that was Google employee #7. Best I could find was references to a venture a few years back called Sunfire. Pretty sure he isn't the Amit Patel of Red Blob Games and Stanford fame. The latter probably threw off a lot of people, since Stanford CS and Google often go hand-in-hand. There's even another Amit Patel that currently works at Google, but he's a supply chain guy. As another thread confirms, it must be a quite common name: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13319232 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13319232
  - dnr 10y ago
    Can I email you instead of posting publicly?

coldtea 10y ago

>I would be really worried if I spent five years on something(s) that didn't significantly improve my financial security. Fortunately, not everybody feels like that.

D_Guidi 10y ago
money can be exchanged for goods and services
- coldtea 10y ago
  Goods and services are not all there is in life. Money can't be exchanged for lost time (e.g. due to making money), strained relationships (e.g. due to making money), dreams not followed (e.g. due to making money), etc. So one has to strike a balance, and doing stuff as a hobby, without making anything money-wise, is a totally acceptable balance if you have your basic expenses (rent, food, etc) covered.
  - eschutte2 10y ago
    OP wrote "financial security," not "enormous sums of money."
    - coldtea 10y ago
      Yes, but OP also wondered why a random person will spend time studying and reporting stuff on his blog, if they don't make money out of it.
      - obstinate 10y ago
        I didn't worry that he spent time studying. That is awesome! I worried that there was nothing about revenue. And I acknowledged that there may be more context (ex. the author is already independently wealthy, or the blog covers only non-commercial work).
  - adrianN 10y ago