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Julia Evans

@jacob thank you! i've thought about writing a retro but it's a bit tricky, from a business perspective a huge part of what made it easier is that I'd already built a pretty successful business somewhat unintentionally as a side project *before* I quit my job, but I don't think that's very useful advice

20 August at 2:26 | Open on social.jvns.ca
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jacobian

@b0rk I dunno I think it is! Balancing work and side projects (and, like, life!), deciding when the risk is low enough to make the leap, continuing to (I assume) grow afterwards to the point that it’s sustainable and not just living off savings, continuing to come up with ideas (you said you only had one year of ideas built up - that fascinates me) … all/any of that stuff would super interest me. Obviously don’t if you don’t wanna but if any of that inspired you I’d read :)

20 August at 2:30 | Open on social.jacobian.org
Simon Willison

@b0rk @jacob I think that would be really useful advice - hearing how you spun up a side project first, then later made it a full time gig sounds like a very realistic way of thinking about the problem

20 August at 2:31 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
jacobian

@simon @b0rk all this applies to you
too Simon :)

20 August at 2:33 | Open on social.jacobian.org
Simon Willison

@jacob @b0rk yeah, my secret is "sell a startup and earn enough financial runway that you can get away with not making any money for a few years"

20 August at 2:36 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
jacobian

@simon @b0rk haha well ok not super replicable. Still, if you’re able to “turn the corner” and make what you’re doing sustainable, that would be a pretty rad thing

20 August at 2:41 | Open on social.jacobian.org
Simon Willison

@jacob @b0rk absolutely! And if I do manage to do that I’ll very happily write about how

I’m very inspired by what Filippo Valsorda has been doing simonwillison.net/tags/filippo

20 August at 3:34 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
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