if you ever think you’re a good programmer just remember this dude wrote roller coaster tycoon by himself completely in assembly, earning him $30m in royalties
grindcore is highkey retarded lol
einstein slept 10 hours a day and took hella breaks.
not even about working smarter vs harder, anything worth doing requires an amount of creativity which you can’t harness if you’re working 16 hour days.
to get my $200k/yr job i had to spend 12+ hours a day grinding since i was 19.
i lost 90% of my friends, struggled with money for most of that time, worked multiple jobs, and overworked myself to the point of physical illness with multiple hospital visits.
this wasn’t luck.
6 months ago i got an email.
subject: Aaron, you'll leave your job after reading this
>found you on linkedin
>fully remote
>$300k TC
>frequent paid retreats to places like hawaii
>startup adding 30k new users a day
i thought it was a scam. but i figured there was a very very
