I’ve had a few HN posts reach the front page and they’ve enabled me to make many tens of thousands of dollars just this year. How? Well my penchant for yak sha

I’ve had a few HN posts reach the front page and they’ve enabled me to make many tens of thousands of dollars just this year. How? Well my penchant for yak shaving SOMETIMES produces interesting projects —- so now people and companies pay me to do interesting work/experiments/writing with their software (or software we both like). Some recent examples: - https://opencoreventures.com/blog/2022-06-rise-of-o11y/ https://opencoreventures.com/blog/2022-06-rise-of-o11y/ - https://supabase.com/blog/2022/07/18/seen-by-in-postgresql https://supabase.com/blog/2022/07/18/seen-by-in-postgresql It’s often very hard to produce something of high quality (I’m still working at it) —- I’m essentially doing controlled rabbit hole rappelling —- but as far as paid work goes it doesn’t get much better than this. Can’t ask for more than working with prestigious companies to do interesting greenfield work to actually accomplish something — the incentives are aligned and it’s awesome. I’ve liked this so much I’ve started trying to branch out and find more companies to work with, it might change the course of my career.