We live in a world where a lot of people are still living on $2 a day or less. And you consider $10k/year on soccer and music lessons a necessary living expense? Gimmie a break.
I'm friends with a married couple who's got one kid, planning on having more. Husband works in tech, wife doesn't work. Their finances end up looking a lot like mine, except they live in an area of Palo Alto where my…
As someone who recently quit a six-figure tech job in SF... 100k/year does not "barely" cover cost of living. When I first got the job, I decided I wanted to live close to where I was working in SOMA, which meant paying…
"This is how success is distributed in almost any profession." No—only in professions where the marginal cost of serving an additional customer is low.
I find this completely unsurprising. Maybe because I'm someone who used to (kinda sorta) make a living as a writer? Writing software is more profitable than writing prose (or poetry), because fewer people can do it, but…
We live in a world where a lot of people are still living on $2 a day or less. And you consider $10k/year on soccer and music lessons a necessary living expense? Gimmie a break.
I'm friends with a married couple who's got one kid, planning on having more. Husband works in tech, wife doesn't work. Their finances end up looking a lot like mine, except they live in an area of Palo Alto where my…
As someone who recently quit a six-figure tech job in SF... 100k/year does not "barely" cover cost of living. When I first got the job, I decided I wanted to live close to where I was working in SOMA, which meant paying…
"This is how success is distributed in almost any profession." No—only in professions where the marginal cost of serving an additional customer is low.
I find this completely unsurprising. Maybe because I'm someone who used to (kinda sorta) make a living as a writer? Writing software is more profitable than writing prose (or poetry), because fewer people can do it, but…