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The most important thing the FYM has brought me I think is almost complete freedom to pursue whatever it is that my heart desires (in terms of time), and to buy
by JabavuAdams 16y ago
The most important thing the FYM has brought me I think is almost complete freedom to pursue whatever it is that my heart desires (in terms of time), and to buy tools to do whatever it is that I want to do. I would not trade that for any base salary+options package because my time is the only asset I've got that will only diminish and of which I have an unknown quantity to begin with. Having a steady passive income stream translates in to freedom the kind of which is hard to describe until you've experienced it, I'd fight pretty hard to maintain this life, even if it meant operating at an even lower level of income.
Freedom - in terms of time - is priceless.
Amen. That's my goal.
- amichail 16y agoI would like this freedom also. However, generally people do their best work when they are in adverse circumstances (e.g., they are broke). Perhaps by the time one achieves this freedom, their best work is behind them.
- jacquesm 16y ago> Perhaps by the time one achieves this freedom, their best work is behind them. I think SpaceX is a great example to the contrary.
- philwelch 16y agoI think Elon Musk is too much an outlier to provide a great example to any generality.
- jacquesm 16y agoAnybody that scores 'FYM' is an outlier in some way.
- elblanco 16y agoI'm not so sure. In terms of dollars (compared to national space programs) they were broke from the beginning. This constraint has forced them to think about the problem in a different way and seek efficiencies that probably don't occur to the larger programs. While on a personal level, the money Musk had was FU money, on a company level, SpaceX has been operating out of the poor house.
- jacquesm 16y agoAmichail was talking about people, I meant SpaceX as an example of how the person Elon Musk outdid himself post FUM by founding SpaceX.
- JabavuAdams 16y agoNot really. They went big by going orbital -- their expenditure is comparable to dinospace budgets. There are companies doing amazing things with 1 / 10th the budget.
- JabavuAdams 16y agoYup, that's what I mean. I would add John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace, and Masten Space Systems to the list. They've done a lot with 1 / 50 th the money of a SpaceX. It saddens me a little when people get 10^7 dollars and then show a complete lack of imagination in how they deploy it.
- ajg1977 16y ago"However, generally people do their best work when they are in adverse circumstances" Bullshit.
- Groxx 16y agoSo... abuse the creative types until they succeed, then drop them like a ton of bricks?
- davidw 16y agoI think what PG has done with YCombinator is pretty interesting, and a good "second act", although it's quite different from building something with code.
- revorad 16y agoDon't forget Hacker News and Arc. He's still working on them.
- bad_user 16y agoAs an outsider, I think the only value HN has is the community, which was kick-started with YCombinator. Arc is just a fun project he worked on, and has yet to prove itself, especially now that another Lisp-dialect is taking the spotlights.
- revorad 16y agoThe arc code that HN runs on has some value. It's beautifully written and is a nice way of learning Lisp.