Asides

  • Moderate success

    Why aren’t there any blog posts about people who run a moderately successful side business? They’re never mega-successful, just pad bank accounts, help pay off debts, save for the future, take their families on vacations, whatever? It seems a lot more attainable than the seemingly random stories of “The man who built a $1 billion…


  • On internet success

    What is it about the nature of The Internet that makes internet success seem so attainable? Is it the open/egalitarian nature of the internet? Literally anyone can start an open source project, youtube channel, blog, store, whatever. Is it the fact that, as developers, we know the inner workings of the tech behind the latest…