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One of the reasons I've intentionally decided not become independently wealthy is that I want to have to explain to other people why I'm doing things. Part of my work is "charity-ish", and by not being able to do things on my own, I'm forced me to improve my communication skills and involve other people in these charity activities. I think that ultimately improves the final outcome, even if the process is immensely more frustrating.

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Accountability (including the light form of it represented it by explanation) is super useful in refining personal development.

And I'm starting to believe the reason power/status corrupts is that it removes it as an option for character development.

I am referring to technical work specifically. Where most of the time people don’t even know what they want until they see it.

Creating mock-ups and going back and forth costs time and money.

While most of the time what I do is good enough - I am getting tired of people trying to block work until unimportant details are “discussed”.

It would not be frustrating if customers would be willing to pay for mock-up work and then for actual work but what most want is working application right away not mockup but they also want to waste time blabbing about details that would be clear in mock-up or in first version of the app.

Could be so with charity or depending on the field I suppose. I think innovating or figuring out new tech is different as if something is easily understood and explainable, it's probably already done, and if you have a great idea that hasn't been done it's probably because it's really hard to explain or to sell to others on it.

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