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Re:Ask PG: What has changed since you wrote Hackers and Pain... by MichaelApproved on Saturday September 10, 2011 @05:13PM (#2982498)
"I managed to come back down from the ledge"

That you would consider it a ledge, means you made the right choice, for yourself. On the other hand, many people see the chance to create or work at a start-up a positive opportunity that they can benefit from regardless of the outcome.

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Re:Ask PG: What has changed since you wrote Hackers and Pain... by m0nastic on Saturday September 10, 2011 @05:28PM (#2982531)
I may have done a disservice using that metaphor, as it wasn't my intent to suggest that anyone who choses to work on/at a startup is up on a ledge.

What I was trying to convey, was that even someone like myself (pretty much without an entrepreneurial bone in my body) was so enraptured by the thought of it after reading the book that I almost did it. The book is powerful mojo.

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