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It's good to hear you preaching "keep your fixed costs low"! It really bummed me out seeing so many designers (esp at Apple) make themselves miserable by constantly a) spending gobs of money on Nice Things; and also b) moping that they saw no path to creative freedom.

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Andy Matuschak

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Jul 21, 2021

It was funny—when I went Austerity Mode in 2019, I really stressed myself out trying to optimize prices of things like butter. I realized a year later that such low-order bits are totally overshadowed by more important behavioral changes (eating out less, etc). A relief TBH.

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All it takes is being comfortable with starving for long stretches of time. All these "designers" are recapitulating the 1950s angst of brilliant young Ivy grads who were Really novelists and just working on Madison Avenue becauseyouknow.

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Paul Millerd

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Jul 21, 2021

Did the same but went in the hermit direction in early 30s. Feeling much more confident about being able to work on what I want more than 10 years ago. Mostly because I know I don’t need much.