Life

What does it look like to be obsessed with success and prestige? Imagine a guy who starts many endeavors and side projects just because he wants to be known as the creator of something. Or someone who builds another social app, not because he has an unique problem that's unaddressed, but because he wants to be the cool tech entrepreneur who everyone admires and envies

The Mom Test was an excellent read on validating your business ideas and finding the right costumers. Here are my favorites quotes from the book.

Looking for a software engineer job is not hard. Finding a software engineer job that actually brings excitement and novelty is a bigger challenge.

All business ideas seem to originate from a finite group of categories; each having an unique trajectory to fruition. The four types of business ideas involve solving someone elses problem, your own problem, guessing it, and copying.

Today I learned how to make effective small talk with new people and the pareto principle

Even though people tell me not to live for the weekend, I'm starting to find that my best life occurs during the Saturday and Sunday that I have off. It's a process that I'm trying to break and improve upon.

One of the hardest things about coding and working on side projects is that you will often have nothing to show for all the time and effort you put into it.

I have hit the point where I can't do anything for fun anymore. Every hobby is not an attempt to make some extra money or turn it into profit.

I often find that my most successful projects come from things that I don't really care about.

I'm a mental hoarder. My head is like an undiscovered planet with space junk floating all around it. Learning to declutter and clear my mind was essential to alleviating some stress in my life.