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Running your business like a band

Hackers Incorporated

CHAPTER

How to Run a Successful Business

The band metaphor is the only thing I found that feels like it gives me permission To keep doing the work, you know. There's a lot of fear out there because this job is really hard and full of chaos and complexity And so it's very seductive to think like oh this system over here or this model are the answer for how to run a business well. If you if you see the work that you do as a creative outlet, which I think so many programmers Do then it's not that different from making music, right? You could have decided what you're going to do but instead you hired someone who was better at designing tailwind API than you were.

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