According to http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/05/01/talking-about-money/ you are asking for ~$30k/week when consulting. I just read some of your year-in-briefs, and it seems like the most you ever made consulting was $150k in 2012. Is that correct? How much income are you making per year consulting? Because I'd want to make much more than $150k in order for it to be worth it.
The numbers I'm going through right now show that, even if I can make a lot of income consulting, if I just join the right startup I could earn stock options worth effectively more than I'd ever be able to make consulting (assuming I don't get stock consulting).