Week 28: Forcing Myself to Make Money

On the ideas of: making money while I sleep and forcing myself to make money.

Both of these two blogs are recommended reads. The authors, Jason Fried and DHH, changed how I think about business and engineering 10 years ago. And they still do. I’ve just reread their books for a 3rd time. They are contrarians. No BS, no faff, no BS mgmt.

And they are the reason I bootstrapped almeta and Alphazed before. I’ve read what Jason Fried wrote 10 years ago:

This is one of the reasons I encourage entrepreneurs to bootstrap instead of taking outside money. On day one, a bootstrapped company sets out to make money. They have no choice, really. On day one a funded company sets out to spend money. They hire, they buy, they invest, they spend. Making money isn’t important yet. They practice spending, not making.

Jason Fried

Each word is gold. You own your destiny. And your destiny is based on your work. You work for your own destiny, not for someone else’s.

This is what Skin in the Game is, ala Nassim Taleb.

Salam, peace.