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Re:My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years by williamtrask on Saturday September 23, 2023 @12:33PM (#37624789)
To be fair. The title of the post only focuses on money and completely ignores whether the work has any real value to themself or society. Kindof implies pretty strongly “their identity”.
Re:My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years by savanaly on Saturday September 23, 2023 @12:35PM (#37624816)
No it doesn't? They just chose to write a tight, focused post. Rather than an autobiography. If they had written a larger sweeping piece focusing on all their hobbies and aspirations and well as their successful business people would still be salty in the comments.
Re:My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years by williamtrask on Saturday September 23, 2023 @12:40PM (#37624867)
Devils advocate, if the post was about building an open source non-profit with that level of financial success I don’t think there would be so much salt.
Re:My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years by ncallaway on Saturday September 23, 2023 @07:00PM (#37628393)
I don’t care about the salt, I don’t like people making wild assumptions that aren’t founded on anything, and then criticizing that.

There’s plenty to criticize in the post, but I think making things up about the author is just not a kind thing to do.

Re:My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years by ncallaway on Saturday September 23, 2023 @06:58PM (#37628366)
> Kindof implies pretty strongly “their identity”.

Respectfully, it doesn’t, I don’t think you’re being fair, and I think saying it does is rude and presumptuous.

It pretty strongly implies “what they chose to write a blog post about”.

If, in the blog post they described focusing on nothing else but money, I’d agree with you. But they don’t.

> I still want to get more revenue, but I realized that this is a moving goalpost, and it will never stop. $10K, then $20K, then $50K. I knew I would never satisfied.

> It’s much better to work and play at the same time.

> So I traveled. I went for a trip around Vietnam.

> My average working hours during this period was about 4 hours/day. I still tweet a lot

Clearly there’s more to this person than doing nothing but focusing on money. Just because they chose to write this blog post, doesn’t mean it’s their entire identity.