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I've been looking for examples of a self hosted service to do exactly this, albeit at a smaller scale.

Challenge 1). create a ton of emails

Challenge 2). create a ton of reddit accounts

Challenge 3). generate enough, random activity on accounts to give them enough karma to do anything

Challenge 4). create a system to dispatch and carry out actions with said accounts

Start a company that makes something common people desire. Invest / donate 60% of your profits to fusion energy research. Profit.

To quote Financial Samurai:

"Own one car for show and another car for dough."

;)

You articulated my feelings much better than I could've hoped to! I also struggled with mental health qualms through college, largely aided by an ADHD diagnosis at 22. Now that I know I'm on the fringes of the autism scale I've accepted that dating / relationships usually don't provide more social energy or positives than stress, negatives, or situations that make me feel lost or socially distant.

I sort of wonder if I'm giving something up by basically giving up on dating - but I've reached a very warm peace with it all as of late.

You bring up a good point, even though I enjoyed drinking / partying with a startup I worked at in college, an experience I wouldn't trade for anything - at 26 I draw serious boundaries between work "outings" / social groups and personal friend groups. Personally, if I ever had a startup there'd be no alcohol at work and work would be for work. The last thing I need is someone claiming someone said something off color at a work outing. Work friends also get messy when you leave a company for good or bad reasons.

Idk, certain things that aren't inherently political could be perceived as such. I actually really like reading about economics, unfortunately in our current political climate - many would likely try to make grand assumptions of my politics / ethics based on how I think about economics.

If I'm ever able to transition to contracting or living off of my endeavors full time I'd write under my true name. Unfortunately, I'm still a white collar wage slave.

$65k +

However, I'd still be weary of my new 4x4 Mercedes Sprinter Van being scratched and I only paid $45k for that new. However, there are benefits to parking in a secured garage in manhattan haha.

I've observed this too. There's certainly a threshold to break out of my own thought / reality bubble. However, I've caught myself exploiting the "positives" of this, in that I still only have so much social energy. Even when events go well, I tend to get worse at managing my social time. However, finding outlets for being social that I actually enjoy and don't find tiresome is a risk worth taking. Generally, I'm glad that at this point I've sort of stopped caring about being "like-able", "cool" or socially "known" in my circles.

Many overtly social people I know seem to use social interaction as a sort of crutch for avoiding solving personal issues. Then again, I have friends who just seem to be inherently "good" at being social without a distinct narrative or motive. I wish I could be like that, this is likely why I've fucked up a lot of "serious" relationships in the past.

I should add, that I probably suffer from a latent poverty mindset in this instance (regarding fancy cars). I can imagine if I had enough money or wealth past a certain degree I could care less if my massively expensive car was keyed etc. I'm still trying to pin down the number at which I have so much money my anxiety about luxuries and indulgences largely goes away. Unfortunately, I think this number for me is at least $8MM :(

Thanks! Usually my own view of my writing is that it's hard to follow, robotic, or a bit scattered (much like my brain). But if you like reading it I'd definitely consider starting an anonymous blog of some kind! Feel free to ping me at chivalrousmowing@protonmail.com .

No pun intended?

After spending a lot of time alone (mostly during quarantine - ironically in NYC, a place I moved to in March given it's lower barrier of entry to all things social), as someone who pulls more to the side of introvert but can be socially functional in group settings, I'm pretty sure that being alone with less social contact causes me far less stress and anxiety. So in other words, I'm finding that although there are benefits to being social, the fact that I've saved boat loads of money and have less stress from worthless small talk seems like an ideal way to live. Which sucks, because I've also realized that networking is the only true "hack" in essence to get past the drudgery of coding interviews / otherwise opaque career ladders.

I delineate my introvert / extrovert brain by classifying people I deem "interesting enough to talk to" and "people I'd rather not talk to". For this reason, work interactions always seem to go better than off hand social interactions. If someone is condescending or rude then I'd just rather not waste time talking to them. At this point in my life I don't really feel it's worth the effort to force social interaction in either direction, some people like you others won't - dating also gets easier if you take this approach.

Something I'm curious of is if "lonely" brains are less healthy? Also, for reference - the best point of comparison for social anxiety in my case is analogous to why I don't see the point in fancy cars. I drive a 2001 nissan, but I never worry about where I park it, if it gets dented or worry about someone keying it. If I drove a lambo, I'd constantly be worried (even subconsciously) about this kind of thing.

That's a fair point. Thanks!

I've been with this company for about a year, we just closed another $10M series B so at this point I want to figure out how I can leverage my position since we're without a doubt now very much in a growth phase. I've read about and heard about people who started out at as engineers at "growth stage" startups and then somehow leveraged their way to far more meaningful and high earning positions. I'm just reaching in the dark as to how one actually does that, aside from being a "good" employee and working hard.

Hmm, maybe I suck at communication in the context of team discourse? I've never really had a great example or explanation of "ownership" outside of a bizarre corporate lingo form at Amazon. I guess I'm curious as to what "value" is in distinct terms, I still feel pretty lost here?

I've dealt with medically diagnosed depression and ADHD since I was in my late teens. Studying engineering in college and not being diagnosed with ADHD until I was 22 lead to my darkest point of depression. Fortunately for me, my darkest point lead me to take academic leave and move to the bay area to work for an amazing crypto tracing company at the height of pre-scam era ethereum. Fortunately, I got help, turned things around and learned some valuable things about myself.

I keep falling into old patterns that hindered my ability to focus and improve in college. When I'm not getting in my own way I can do awesome things and feel happy.

Now I'm doubting that I'll be able to improve as an engineer fast enough or have the energy to maintain motivation to start a company. Seeing younger co-workers continue to improve faster than me, even at 26 is degrading. WFH has also been slowly crushing me. Even working for 2-3 focused hours a day is grueling at this point.

I'm waiting for the tidal wave of people who think that a "trusted enclave" will fix this problem and can never be exploited or cracked... [0] [1]

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2019/02/12/intel_sgx_hacked/?utm...

[1] https://blog.quarkslab.com/attacking-the-arms-trustzone.html

As an early Indie Hackers user I don't see it as a "place to spam [a] newly built service". It used to be a place where you could get rich and deep info on how people approached turning a small side project into something that made $5-n moneys each month. Now, it's a hell hole of click bait and bait and switch email lists.

I'm not really looking for a "trick" I'm looking for proven or supported strategies I can hire someone to execute for meager growth at best. For now, I'm okay spending money in order to save my time since limiting my use of time spent on marketing work is what I'm after. There just seems to be very little information available on the subject without encountering a very high noise threshold.

Is this kind of info publicly available? I know tracking trains / providing this info publicly is illegal in many US states.

Not even joking, if The Green New Deal is passed in any form I honestly expect a civil war to happen. The Green New Deal (yes, the one that literally received 0 votes in the senate [0]) is the economic equivalent of falling on a sword and being so tone deaf that you don't hear your own scream once you bleed out. Not to mention that the US cutting emissions would basically have an insignificant effect globally, destroy energy independence, just "offset" emissions and pollution to china in order to produce solar panels, while also ignoring the fact that China and India have been building dirty coal power plants almost monthly as of late...

[0] - https://nypost.com/2019/03/26/senate-rejects-ocasio-cortezs-...

I definitely plan to get out if A) by next year I'm not at least making $180k or B) find more interesting work here. Unfortunately, a lot of the work in Austin / other parts of the country seems sort of bland. In NYC you can work for AI companies, urban automated farming companies, fintech and much more. If taxes go up more, I'll get tired of it and do something else.

Any advice for getting the math figured out for how much I need to be making in a HCOL area to make the cost of living / taxes worth while? I've briefly lived in the Bay Area and can day with confidence I have zero interest in working or moving to CA. NYC is a much better balance.

My specialty is elixir and golang. I'm largely full stack but have also had a rather strategic focus on a few side projects during covid that are now pretty profitable. (small software tools for very niche areas and one or two dtc's)

What I'm questioning is if focusing on honing my "startup" skill in regards to bringing something from zero to 1 or clamping down on my main gig and going for incremental raises? PG's writing on the subject says to not maintain side projects, but obviously this is what a VC would want to impart. I also generally see starting a number of small but profitable businesses as a more efficient path to wealth instead of chasing ultra high salaries (frankly, I'm not sure I'm smart enough or improve fast enough to reach those salaries).

In many cases unless you keep perfect records you end up paying cap gains and income tax.

I mean, the tax implications of doing anything with crypto as an "investment" already made it a basically useless asset class to get into. Not to mention, anyone with half a brain knows that exchanges manipulate markets with favored liquidity providers. This is really kind of hilarious.

I guess I'll have to lose my Ledger Nano S along with my firearms in my boating trip planned for late January ;).

It'll be curious when they inevitably release the "M2" chip with higher memory capacity. If M2 has 32gb support I'll buy one immediately. For now, I'll be sticking to my "never buy gen 1 of any technology" rule. Right along side my, "use tech until it breaks" rule, however if you incentivize yourself to be a "power user" meeting the latter rule is far easier than the former ;) .

This is precisely the literary slight of hand I was talking about! Similar to Musk's hilarious dismissal of hydrogen technology. Hydrogen will obviously in time become the ideal source of energy for electric aircraft and electric long haul trucks.