if you ever think you’re a good programmer just remember this dude wrote roller coaster tycoon by himself completely in assembly, earning him $30m in royalties
aaron
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aaron
@aarondotdev
chronically online senior swe
- >$156k/yr + a ton of equity >fully remote >haven’t had a meeting in weeks aim higher. dream bigger.
- new remote job, i haven’t spoken a word to another person in 3 days
- grindcore is highkey retarded lol einstein slept 10 hours a day and took hella breaks. not even about working smarter vs harder, anything worth doing requires an amount of creativity which you can’t harness if you’re working 16 hour days.
- to get my $200k/yr job i had to spend 12+ hours a day grinding since i was 19. i lost 90% of my friends, struggled with money for most of that time, worked multiple jobs, and overworked myself to the point of physical illness with multiple hospital visits. this wasn’t luck.
- duolingo but for math
- 6 months ago i got an email. subject: Aaron, you'll leave your job after reading this >found you on linkedin >fully remote >$300k TC >frequent paid retreats to places like hawaii >startup adding 30k new users a day i thought it was a scam. but i figured there was a very very
- my biggest inspiration as an engineer
Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextThe picture has been altered. x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/… - AGI researchers when they realize that generally people aren’t that intelligent
- i am 24 years old - long term gf (9 years) - 4 dogs, 1 cat - react dev - $156k base, $300k equity (illiquid) is it over for me? yes or no
- sundar pichai’s daughter since everyone was talking about eve jobs
- the optimal path seems to be small startup exit in 20s ->phd ->co-found deep tech startup
