Question for bootstrapped free agents/solopreneurs who’ve been in game a few years:
Do you make small-scale invest-in-the-business plans (outsourcing, equipment, subcontractors, interns...) based on surplus you have or do you make plans and then figure out how to pay for them?
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Make plans then figure out how to pay for them. It’s the only way to motivate myself. There is never a surplus
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This explains 80% of the difference between you and me. The other 20% is explained by: you like cults more than jokes, I like jokes more than cults
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True. I generally don’t get jokes. And 95% of the funniest jokes I’ve made, I wasn’t joking.
But how do you accumulate a surplus? How do you motivate yourself to work harder than necessary?
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I don't accumulate a surplus. I just give up on anything I don't accidentally have a surplus to sustain while I'm interested in it.
The pleasures and sorrows of lack of ambition.
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