Humans are nothing but hormones projected onto physical world. Expanding in space and time is a task of any living organism, be it your genes, ideas, etc. I won’t say more.
I’ve been working on a tool for making products using vertically integrated stack of an editor, renderer, and collaborative workspace. It was a lot technically.
This product is a first real tangible outcome which I’m still working on. Any ideas and feedback would be greatly appreciated.
The reason for product to exist is to explain how to access the greatest financial market in the world as a foreigner who can travel to the US to get:
- customer protection
- free float
- acquire points for hotels, flights
None of it is new to financially-savvy Americans but few foreigners know that anyone (other than citizens of embargoed countries) can access the same tool belt.
This is an excellent and pragmatic way of looking at scaling team as an engineer. The defragmentation comparison really demonstrates this clearly, thank you for sharing this.
Great move, congrats to everyone involved. Fly is very promising player in the space. Pipeline looks amazing, and I’ll be trying more of your offerings down the road.
I’ve been doing this as a contractor. I started in my home country, where $50/h is a lot—established relationships over time with people who value solid developers and hate handholding as much as I do. Over time progressed and tripled my rate and now do maintenance work primarily and combine personal business projects. I sacrificed corp. Life and lots of money but gained a lot of flexibility and traveled a lot. As a non-US work authorized person, it wasn’t much of an option anyway.
I’d say this: if you’re outside of the US, the best companies for this approach are in the Nordics. If you are US-based, the number of companies who fit this profile are non-tech founders who look for an all-in-one developer who can move the needle and establish everything until there are more funds or traction. Stakeholders have to value the quality of life more than anything esle.
I’ve been doing remote async for five years now. Nothing beats that lifestyle for me. I think it’s only natural to work that way. No alarms, only natural rhythms. Code when it works for you, tackle problems, respond to messages when it suits you best. What’s the point of remote work if everyone’s online at the same time? I don’t see the point as a developer. Business-wise, maybe—if you don’t have everything dumped into txt.
Software has been eating the world, and there’s no sign of it stopping.
Software gave people like me a way to escape dire economic situation, and is the main reason for increased social mobility as in having lots of options. That is attractive to every young person out there, and the demand goes up and to the right.