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How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think | Kalzumeus Software
For me, it has been disorienting to spend most of my time writing without any promise of monetary rewards after a decade of getting paid for every single hour I worked.
Paul Millerd • Good Work: Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition
I don't spend that much money because once you get used to spending money, it's very hard to get unused to. Happiness is reality compared to expectations. If I have low expectations for material things in my life, then I'll be happy. If I get used to fancy meals all the time, not only will it ruin McDonald's for me, but even the fancy food would be
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
If it makes you a worse person (parent, neighbor, writer, whatever), it’s not success. If starting a business makes you a worse person—if it stresses you out, if it tears your relationships apart, if it makes you bitter or frustrated with people—then it doesn’t matter how much money it makes or external praise it receives. It’s not successfu
... See moreRyan Holiday • 31 Lessons I’ve Learned About Money
The Catholic legal scholar Cathleen Kaveny has argued that the reason so many of them are so unhappy—despite being generally very well paid—is the convention of the “billable hour,” which obliges them to treat their time, and thus really themselves, as a commodity to be sold off in sixty-minute chunks to clients. An hour not sold is automatically a... See more