The one bit value of growing vs not is the primary determinant of success (in this industry), yes. I’m not making a lifestyle biz.
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No one cares about your code.
(This question is asked in good faith).
I agree though, it’s a tremendous political failure that we have so under-built housing. Most cities could be affordable to most people with adequate supply.
If “too many vacationers” and short term rentals have priced you out, you can’t afford it. Tough shit, welcome to life.
It’s insane to me that people feel entitled to own a home in whatever part of whatever city they desire, for whatever price they’ve decided is reasonable.
If you want cheaper housing build more houses.
The only time I run Docker is to test an image locally, which is in general only to debug my Dockerfile.
Back then I would climb for a couple hours in the morning for fun and then work until 8pm or later. Get beers, go to bed, do it again. Every day, most weekends, most holidays. It didn’t feel hard because it’s what I was meant to be doing. So much fun.
Now I can’t string together 2 focused hours. I’d rather take the kids to the park, or have to take someone to the doctor, or a sport, or whatever. Even if I had to work a “regular” job, the idea that I would work any harder than absolutely necessary, at the expense of time with my family? Not a chance.
I’m not saying you must be 20s or 30s or whatever. You just must care more about the venture than other things.
(In my experience).
But really, people want to do what they want, and other folks don’t get to. That’s the whole of it.
The actual approach is to maintain a million fucking feature flags, ensuring that almost all possible combinations are essentially untested… better hope you did a good job separating concerns!
Even a Honda Civic can accommodate these things far better than a bus.
As you say, it’s our space.
Actually, if you work with SMBs/enterprises, I agree with you on customer facing changes. In my past life we would ship very frequently (often more than once a day) but always had to feature flag changes that large clients might see or be affected by. Even something as simple as tweaking the layout of a core flow could cause support headaches and angry customers — customers worth 10s of thousands of dollars per month. Is it worth losing a customer to CD a new button placement?
I would say if you are in the business of selling startups, you’re probably in the same boat.
So, the PSA is “don’t listen to this bozo, it’s still shit”.
From yet another, not having kids is a selfish choice.