I'll be honest. I much prefer these oil sands operations that ruin sparsely populated bits of remote wilderness in the Canadian Arctic to other operations that destroy pristine wilderness near somewhere livable to more than ~300 people or contaminates water supplies for hundreds of thousands of people.
In other country like Indonesia, they actually "ask" local people to destroy their house for drilling spot without good compensation for the house they destroyed.
I feel like this could be easily handled. Does anyone want to print out the three important values and tape them to machines/nearby walls so everyone knows?
To be honest, I think you could really benefit from having a good office job. Office work can greatly improve your ability to focus and complete tasks.
Before I took an office job, I could make small projects but couldn't program beyond maybe 1000 lines of code without running into trouble. At my job, I learned to be a great programmer, an engineer and a software architect. I became focused and patient. It is often a necessary right of passage for those 'great engineers' and 'people who change the world' to work in an office. It can take years, but you can become a better engineer than you ever dreamed you could be.
Trust me on this: you might like it a lot more than you think.
Building discipline and consistency to do the tasks you don't value but need to be done are a huge skill necessary for any kind of success in any position, startup or otherwise.
Engineers have better outcomes at the start of their career and have better odds of starting their own company successfully. If you're a good economist, you'll go into economics. If you're a great economist, you'll go into engineering.
This depends a lot on your job. If you work as a software engineer, it's likely that you have sufficient control and freedom to work on side projects.
It's still brutal though - 60 hour weeks are insane, especially when you do them continuously. It can also take years and likely multiple projects before you succeed.
That has been one of my problems. I frequently come home so drained that I don't have much capacity left for the day. That exacerbates my motivation/procrastination problems.
Get up early. You have to make sure to do the important thing first in the morning and chip away at it day by day. This is very hard, but still possible by slowly building up a routine (even if your an 'owl'). Spend your best brain-time on your own stuff, get to work and try to manage the dayjob with the leftovers. Be a B player, fuck them.
I have this problem too. I think the key to this is what i've acronymized as "TTR" -- Time-to-revenue. Any idea with a High TTR ( for instance a product that needs enterprise sales ) is out as a side project. Ideas with a Low TTR are in. The key is to get a passive or near-passive income and then be able to go for High TTR/ High TTMVP (moonshot) businesses later.
I did the 60-80 weeks for about 2 months working on my side project. I quickly gave up and quit the day job to make the side project my day job. It just isn't sustainable long term. Thankfully I had enough in savings to go for it.
Most jobs that would fit in this category, I think, represent a form of economic liquidity. It makes it easier to move money from one area of the economy to another by creating these new jobs.
It's harmful to businesses that don't care about it and beneficial to ones that do. The platform involved usually benefits from increased participation and weaknesses are discovered by benign rather than malevolent actors.
