At 22, Derek Sivers had $12,000 in the bank, paid $333 a month for a room in a Queens apartment with three roommates, never ate out, and kept his total expenses at $500 a month. He played music for $300 a show. Two gigs covered everything. He was free. Later he built a company and … Continue reading The Trap is the Point
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The Functional Migration Problem
You're alone in a quiet room when the concept hits: you've been defending a dead project because of what you already spent, not what you'll gain. The recognition restructures your decision. Three months later someone deploys that same concept in a meeting to diagnose someone else's error. The project continues anyway. A concept like "sunk … Continue reading The Functional Migration Problem
