Daniel: I always had the inclination that eventually I would want to work for myself. It's sort of I grew up in a family of self-employed people, right? And I was sort of felt it's also in me that I want to console how I work and what I work on. So no matter how much time, how much more I was going to get promoted or how much more money I was going To be making, I was working somebody else's schedule without overdoing it. Long story short, nevertheless you know, I think I did some things that I probably should have learned from longer ago but hindsight is 20/20.
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In our ops & infra world, we learn to optimise for redundancy, for mean time to recovery and for graceful degradation. We instinctively recognise single points of failure, and try to mitigate the risks associated with them.
For some years now, Daniel Vassallo has been doing the same, but in the context of life & work. Daniel talks about the role of randomness, about learning from small wins & about optimising for a lifestyle that matches your true preferences. Apparently, ideas too should be treated like cattle, not pets.
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