You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss

Paul Graham:

Having seen that happen so many times is one of the things that convinces me that working for oneself, or at least for a small group, is the natural way for programmers to live. Founders arriving at Y Combinator often have the downtrodden air of refugees. Three months later they’re transformed: they have so much more confidence that they seem as if they’ve grown several inches taller. Strange as this sounds, they seem both more worried and happier at the same time. Which is exactly how I’d describe the way lions seem in the wild.

“Both more worried and happier at the same time” perfectly describes my experience writing DF full-time.

★ Friday, 21 March 2008