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As others have pointed out negative thinking is a bitch as it always finds ways to reaffirm itself.

That being said. You never really make it. There is no magical "release". You will always have to cope with, all sorts of things that you did not really ask for - that's just part of life. Everyone goes through life like that, even the people on Magazine covers and Instagram.

Life is hard and challenging and all the better for it. With challenge comes growth. You may have to make some hard decisions but being sick and tired of it all is a good place to be. It forces you to think of ways to change.

I did it. Quit my high paying job(not anywhere as high as your though) got a good compensation package and spent 4-5 years starting a company together with my dad. The company still haven't succeeded but haven't shut down either.

Now I work as a freelance consultant and am starting with two new ideas. BUT this time I will do it differently.

I will most certainly keep working my "regular" job until I have traction with one of the other ideas. I have a high paying job, could of course cut all expenses(this is not fun a few years in btw!) and live of very little. But the other option with a high paying job is to invest all of the excess pay into whatever endeavor you are planning. You most likely have enough excess pay to hire one or two other people to work on your idea while still working your day job.

This even gives a little more meaning to your daytime job as it then finances your future startup.

I love this. Thanks a lot for taking the time to write it!

I agree that they are mostly unnecessary with only three people. But I'll have a stab at a blunt division of responsibilities:

- CEO: Main purpose is making sure that there is a company to run. Get funding etc.

- CPO: (I suppose you intent it to mean Chief Product Officer) Main purpose is to make sure you build a product that the market needs.

- CTO: Main purpose is making sure that the product can/will be build.

I am a soft dev as well, although freelance, and plan on transitioning to management or focus on a startup. Product manager was one of my thoughts - but what is your thoughts behind it - why that route?

Pitch Anything - About selling and the psychology of selling. Really need to re-read that one actually.

And +1 for Deep Work, So Good They Can't Ignore You or The World Beyond Your Head. They made me realize that being in a profession where you can reach "flow state" actually is a privilege.

We tend to overestimate what we can achieve short-term and underestimate long-term.

It was not to do with privacy, it is to do with scaling issues that may arise if it gains more traction and wide acceptance.

I do not own IOTA - thought about it some months back but decided against it because I don't fancy doing trades on or supporting Bitfinex.

Another HN user swayed me away from Monero - which I owned a large part of as he told me about scaling issues.

But my question is to your advice about: look to other experts. As someone coming outside the crypto-universe it is kind of hard to distill who the real experts are - so any advice on how to distill/find credible sources of information in this space?

You could argue about exposure and banks that failed would have had larger impact on ordinary people than the 99.999%. But I generally agree with your comment.

Thanks a lot. Never heard that one mentioned before. It will certainly go in my Amazon basket.

Halfway through I can't avoid thinking the same - this really reads like an enhanced dystopian version of what may happen in the future.

2 wrongs don't make a right.

I can't tell you exactly how to solve it. Perhaps a close look at Japans "Tax Haven Counter Measure Law" could be a part of the solution: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/dennis-howlett/japan-shows-how-...

But playing by different rules once you are big enough sure as hell ain't right.

I have nothing to do with this product, and although you appear a little negative towards the OP, it still seems as though you have quite a lot of knowledge in this area. So you peaked my interest. What what you do to avoid the scenarios you highlight?

I recently heard/read something which I actually can't really remember whether was aimed at tech hires or other, but it just resonated with me.

Remember that the process you choose to screen your hires defines the people you end up with. Understood as; if you present hard complicated theoretical assignments, then what you get is people who are good at these and may overcomplicate implementation. You may want these - but in a lot of cases what you probably needed was somewhat more pragmatic programmers.

As the linked article is about online dating, you may be more right in your stance, than me trying to drag the discussion into real life dating :)

If you have 8 figures of wealth your looks are pretty secondary. But no you don't need anything like that for enhancing your chances and pushing looks further down the list. If all you do is online dating, then yes. People will judge on what they see. But in real life you have lots of possibilities to swing the pendulum in your direction.

But this also ignores the fact that you as a man are judged by other things that only your looks. Money, power, social status, personality to name a few. Men have a lot more strings to play when it comes to increasing their value in the "sexual marketplace".

Thanks! That was actually better than the one I posted.

I have both in my "Saved for later" bucket on Amazon but never really got around to actually buying them. I'm just not sure whether they will be interesting and dense enough or you actually have got the whole message by reading a comment like yours.

Thanks a lot once more! I need to read that Mimblewimble white paper.

Haha yeah the last sentence came a bit late as I have lost some money on Monero. I may just hold them until they perhaps gets even and then sell. Just liked the philosophy and idea behind. But thanks anyway :)

Thank you very, very much for that long and thorough answer. I need to read it through more thoroughly when I return from work. But sounds like I may need to re-think my holdings of Monero :)

Could you elaborate on this flaw, or perhaps point to a link - especially with regards to Monero?

Interesting and obvious in many ways. The recruiters of course has all the interest in the world to deliver the right candidate. I would be interested if people have any recommendations in this regards as well.

Thanks a lot for asking this. I actually find myself looking somewhat in the same direction without really having found a clear path. But a lot of good answers here that I will look further into.

I just made my life a little more complicated by doing freelance development work and now in the short run probably will have to accept a major pay cut to prove myself in a VP/C* something role of a smaller company, until I would be able to break into larger firms and better pay.

Don't get scared by peoples labels. There is nothing you SHOULD. There are choices and consequences. If you make a good living and enjoy what you do, then why suddenly question it.

Thanks a lot for the info!

Interesting with the unlocking. Any source/more info on that?

That was extremely helpful - thanks a lot!

Definitely music and a good nights sleep. If I haven't slept properly or am somewhat exhausted nothing can bring me into flow.

If I'm well rested I have 4-5 different hour long mixes that I put on my noise cancelling headphones or use "Focus" from Brain.fm - which I actually think I bought a lifetime membership of because of a HN discount - and with either one of those, I have somewhat trained my mind to go into "work-mode"/flow.