Yet instead of doing what would be fun, and thereby maybe solving stuff, people do what they're told they 'must', or what they think they 'should'.https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1222631434235473920 …
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I think, even within fields that have high-dollar funding available and assumed to be on the happy path, that there is likely substantial value unlocked by low dollar checks. In fact, I think the lower bound for impactful funding and marginal returns to it are likely *shocking.*
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There's an old saw about "for want of a nail, the war was lost", but I think that has other-than-metaphorical quality to it. I feel with north of 90% confidence that I could have accelerated my career by plural years for about $2,000 and a cup of coffee, for example.
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I only started my consulting business once I had over 100k in savings
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100k for me to basically fuck around SF for six months would be crazy useful rn. There’s no guarantee I would do any *specific* useful thing, so you might get a startup or you might get a novel, but my boredom tolerance is so low that *something* would happen
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And I *could* self-fund this, but the opportunity cost for me is super-high. I'm still right on the bubble of doing it anyway, but any kind of funding would make it a lot easier
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