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LiamHzon I plan to leave tech to pursue art

I worked on early versions of Midjourney

LiamHzon I plan to leave tech to pursue art

Hi! I'm the author of this post -- it was an unlisted draft that I shared with a few friends, was planning to rewrite most of this before publishing. Please forgive the rough edges

Main changes I'd make to this article

- Agreed with others that I might be naive, but I'm 20 y/o and now's the right time to shoot for my dreams rather than settle

- I'm applying to animation school soon (Sheridan). I started coding when I was 12, I expect this career change to take a few years, and am in it for the long haul

- My worst case is I don't enjoy working in art, and go back to tech. I don't believe you can make a successful career change without going all-in

Happy to answer any questions :)

Made a little music video with some of my art if you'd like to take a peek

https://twitter.com/LiamHinzman/status/1589660449271959552

LiamHzon Vim Creep (2011)

This was a great video, thanks for sharing! It made me realize that I haven't been using unix commands enough in Vim

LiamHzon Is Y Combinator worth it?

This has info (year, exit / dead, one line description) of 1281 YC companies [0]

Out of the 49 companies in the S11 batch, 10 exited, 17 are "dead", and 22 have no status.

Most of the companies from the W16 batch have no status listed.

[0]: https://yclist.com/

LiamHzon Stackoverflow is down

I wonder what the global GDP impact is of StackOverflow being down.