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#122 Indie Life & The Future of Work - Venkatesh Rao

The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

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Do You Think Indie Consulting Is a Good Place to Start?

I think there's almost a false sense of security about the predictability of basic life anyway. For people who've always been in like paycheck careers it's a kind of shock they've never dealt with whereas for me I have a couple of big gigs a couple of smaller gigs a sub-stack and so forth and if I use any one of them I'll make a couple of little adjustments but fundamentally it's not going to kill me. There is something that's kind of equivalent to a career path in a traditional career where you get the equivalent of promotion or job titles such as VP instead of manager. It feels like chapters and interesting new chapters ends up being more interesting than just gig after

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