Before calling someone's genuine thoughts "absurd", I'd suggest exploring https://readmake.com https://readmake.com book, which goes into much more detail on th

Before calling someone's genuine thoughts "absurd", I'd suggest exploring https://readmake.com https://readmake.com book, which goes into much more detail on these thoughts. It was written by one such highly successful indie dev, and I think it's worth giving these ideas a shot. The author also describes many of them on his personal blog: https://levels.io/contact/ https://levels.io/contact/ Another good resource is "It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work", where the authors describe how they've built a highly profitable bootstrapped business, and their philosophy around that, which shares many of these thoughts.