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That's impressive. This reminds me of a story I read about being an independent researcher (https://andreas-madsen.medium.com/becoming-an-independent-re...).

For those who want to do the same. When did you start?. How did you start?. What kind of setup did you have?. How did you stay focus?, and for how long did you work on that?. Any failure stories you want to share?.

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Most of it comes down do conviction and sticking to my not-so-promissing setup for 1 year, while every single of my peers were either thinking WTF are you doing, or telling me why my thing would fail. The rest is luck where we could scale way past what we though was possible.

I stayed focused by creating a penalty system where if I worked for less than 7 hours that day, I'd burn 1$ for every missing hour. I still maintain that spreadsheet with the self-debt over time (that I have yet to pay, but I will by burning crypto). Also my screen saver message is "get back to work"

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