I used to be just like you. I wanted to start a business so that I wouldn't have to work for anyone! I'm going to be my own boss!
The reality is that instead of working for one boss, you are going to be working for 1000 bosses. Unless you like sales and customer support, you are going to be miserable.
The odds of having a successful business are low. And even if you do succeed, you are going to have to keep working anyway. It's not like you build it once and forget it.
On the other hand, if you have a six-figure job, you can retire in 5 to 15 years depending on your lifestyle. There is no uncertainty. No emotional roller coaster.
This fail-proof path will give you a peace of mind.
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
This book could be the most important investment you make.
By using the techniques introduced in the book, I was able to raise my contract rate from $35 to $60. It totally changed my life.
I switched to Fork from SourceTree because it has tabbed interface. My desktop is no longer cluttered with windows! It's been great. One question: How can I commit and push at the same time?
Well said! The grass is(and looked) always greener on the other side of the fence.
I decided to become a musician when I was 15 and wasted 6 years pursuing the unrealistic dream. I somehow managed to gave up the dream and became interested in computing in college. I sometimes wish I had become interested in programming instead of drums in junior high, but those 6 years of hustles taught me a lot about team management, entrepreneurship, and how to learn new things. So I don't think I wasted 6 years. As Paul Graham says, you should explore when you are young.
While I respect Elon for his accomplishments, as an AI enthusiast, I don't like his view on AI. My guess is that, he sees AI from physics and sci-fi point of view.
Just because something is possible in theory doesn't mean it is in practice.
Interestingly, many of the pessimistic views on AI come from non-computer scientists such as economists, physicists, and philosophers. I wonder whether they have ever actually read a textbook on AI or machine learning instead of just thinking at a high level. If they have, they should have appreciated how hard AI actually is.
The thing I, as a former AI student, don't like about these kind of discussions, is that "AI" is taken to mean Strong AI, human level AI. It's not. We already have lots of AI, and none of it is human level. And we don't need human-like AI, because we already have billions of human-level intelligences in this world. We're better off making computers do stuff we hate and are bad at, and not the stuff we're good at or enjoy.
