Seriously. How many frameworks and jobs that were just the thing I already did before. Over and over. They hire me because of what they knew I did but want me to sign a thing that says I'll never do it for anyone else but also they never plan on enforcing shit. The better I get at anything no one wants me in the good rooms. Trust me. Chasing all this shit is stupid. VC shit is stupid. Hunt bliss and seek truth through work. Frameworks and tools are great if they serve something that serves you.

Paint on a borrowed canvas and it's hard to complain when they take your life from you. Find the real and fuck all this shit. I turn 40 in a month. I've been following this religion since I was 15. It served me better than most of my peers really but I was never accepted into the pantheon of "in group" either. I suck at programming but I'm almost definitely better than you.

Yeah man. I would say don't do what I did, but that's probably not you. You'll probably have 5 jobs. The advice here that is looking backwards is fucking useless stupid bullshit. This is a tire fire covered in an accidental sewer dump from a Dave Mathews Band tour bus.

Work isn't a search for capital it is sometimes solo but usually a collaborative search for a truth that sums one and one to make three.