@sweatystartup People with bills to pay and dependants to support take risks all the time. And the great resignation isn't limited to startups.
Sure survivorship bias and safety nets are a thing but lots of folks in life have climbed the ladder by building their own rungs when none existed
Recognizing good opportunities requires plenty of idle time, wandering about, tinkering, trial and error, long walks, randomized attention, and other "inefficiencies" of that sort.
Bad system for learning:
"I want to learn about X. So I'm going to go collect a long list of books to read to learn about it."
Good system for learning:
"I want to learn about X. So I'm going to start a project that forces me to learn the necessary parts of X to complete it."
A quick thread on in the importance of being careful what data you share - even if you're the Queen. Today, Her Maj tweeted this lovely picture, gor bless er, etc. You might think that the contents of the red box would be official business. And you'd be right. 1/6
I started youtube working on old jeeps in my college dorm parking lot. Filmed a CV axle swap behind a tire shop at 3am in the winter with finals the next day. 9 years and 900 videos later, I get to work on some really fun projects. I'm not special, I just put in *alot* of hours.
really interested in maintaining last year's 1-2 flights per month streak that i started in march (april + dec the only exceptions, sad). where to next ๐คโ๏ธ
jan: atlanta
feb: miami
march: โ
april: st lucia
may: โ
june: โ
july: aruba
aug: โ
sept: โ
oct: โ
nov: LA
dec: โ