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On moving away from a six figure consultancy to becoming an indie hacker
- just-juan-post 6y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NbZBpMW4Iw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NbZBpMW4Iw
- throwaway4good 6y agoLol ... as you probably know this sort of comment is not really appreciated here on hn ...
- truth_be_told 6y agoSomething not mentioned in the story or a classic mid-life crisis.
- fourstar 6y agoWhat a dog’s breakfast of a story. What’s with the LSD blurb?
- JerryBstein 6y agoSeems a little young for a mid life crisis... I see a guy who was handsome, clean cut, ambitious and successful who quit as CEO of a growing business for no apparent reason to become a a long-haired degenerate who prides himself on riding a scooter and using LSD. Is there a term for this phenomenon? Is it just a spectacular manifestation of burnout/stress?
- throwaway4good 6y agoI think he has great hair ...
- throwaway4good 6y agoActually the latest article on the site is dedicated to the subject: https://matteomosca.io/the-business-lessons-i-learned-from-not-cutting-my-hair-for-18-months https://matteomosca.io/the-business-lessons-i-learned-from-n... The Business Lessons I Learned from Not Cutting My Hair for 18 Months Of course. The bigger question is, does this of sort of marketing / personal branding work? I think it might be a case of "there is no such thing as bad publicity".
- ackbar03 6y agoI dunno, consultancy does seem pretty lame. I get the impression it's like working for someone but not really working for them
- jamil7 6y agoAnd charging obscene amounts of money to do very little.
- itronitron 6y agoI believe the term is delayed-onset adolescence
- sky_rw 6y agoI thought people went to Instagram to flex.
- 55555 6y agoIs this yet another GPT-3 experiment?
- luckylion 6y agoApparently it ran into a botnet of keyword-driven upvote bots.