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There is high value in pieces where the author uses himself as a case study in achieving something and provides a lesson for others to learn from. In this case,

by psim1 7y ago

There is high value in pieces where the author uses himself as a case study in achieving something and provides a lesson for others to learn from. In this case, however, it just reads like braggadocio. What's the take-away for us?

nck4222 7y ago
>What's the take-away for us? My takeaways: 1. If your goal is to try and make money, being focused on one idea at a time is probably better than deep diving in to several narrow niches. 2. I shouldn't be discouraged by not (yet) generating income myself. Despite lots of stories of success and people telling you otherwise, it's a hard thing to do, especially if you work a full time job. 3. I'm really glad I don't bother with the effort of micro tracking my time like this. On the surface it seems appealing but after reading this it seems like it takes a lot of effort, and doesn't provide much value.
- xmprt 7y ago
  If things are working out the way you want them to then tracking your time won't help but if you're trying to find more time then having that information can help a lot instead of randomly deciding you're going to cut out more time playing games.
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itake 7y ago
Take-away: Starting a business is hard. Contracting is much much much more profitable in the short term. I wish the author compared his contracting value creation with his project's value creation.
- michael_forrest 7y ago
  One of the implications of "quitting contracting" for me is that I'm not letting myself compare anything to my contractor day rate. Suffice to say for the last six months, compared to contracting, my income has been basically 0.
notJim 7y ago
To me it reads more like a diary than a hyper-focused advice piece. Not everything has to be written like a business book, sometimes it's interesting just to read about what someone else has been up to.
- dasil003 7y ago
  Indeed. I'm not generally interested in pointed advice from bloggers, there are so many assumptions and presumptions that go into reducing something down to a single thesis, and it becomes tiresome after a while. Give me some more color so I can consider how it relates to my own life and value—that's food for thought.

by psim1 7y ago

nck4222 7y ago

>What's the take-away for us? My takeaways: 1. If your goal is to try and make money, being focused on one idea at a time is probably better than deep diving in to several narrow niches. 2. I shouldn't be discouraged by not (yet) generating income myself. Despite lots of stories of success and people telling you otherwise, it's a hard thing to do, especially if you work a full time job. 3. I'm really glad I don't bother with the effort of micro tracking my time like this. On the surface it seems appealing but after reading this it seems like it takes a lot of effort, and doesn't provide much value.

xmprt 7y ago
If things are working out the way you want them to then tracking your time won't help but if you're trying to find more time then having that information can help a lot instead of randomly deciding you're going to cut out more time playing games.

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itake 7y ago

Take-away: Starting a business is hard. Contracting is much much much more profitable in the short term. I wish the author compared his contracting value creation with his project's value creation.

michael_forrest 7y ago
One of the implications of "quitting contracting" for me is that I'm not letting myself compare anything to my contractor day rate. Suffice to say for the last six months, compared to contracting, my income has been basically 0.

notJim 7y ago

To me it reads more like a diary than a hyper-focused advice piece. Not everything has to be written like a business book, sometimes it's interesting just to read about what someone else has been up to.

dasil003 7y ago
Indeed. I'm not generally interested in pointed advice from bloggers, there are so many assumptions and presumptions that go into reducing something down to a single thesis, and it becomes tiresome after a while. Give me some more color so I can consider how it relates to my own life and value—that's food for thought.