Commonsense Lessons from the Silicon Valley VC Cash Splash and Metaverse Fail
You go in thinking the hard part is going to be the build.The code, the architecture, the 18-hour days, and late nights arguing with your own logic until it finally clicks into place. And sure, that part is hard.It should be hard and was much harder in the past, real coding with actual stubby human fingers. But here is the joke nobody tells you at the start.The code part is approximately ten percent of the actual job.
- ▪You go in thinking the hard part is going to be the build.The code, the architecture, the 18-hour days, and late nights arguing with your own logic until it finally clicks into place.
- ▪And sure, that part is hard.It should be hard and was much harder in the past, real coding with actual stubby human fingers.
- ▪But here is the joke nobody tells you at the start.The code part is approximately ten percent of the actual job.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Commonsense Lessons from the Silicon Valley VC Cash Splash & Metaverse FailVektor Memory22 min read·Just now--ListenSharePress enter or click to view image in full sizeI made this slopGet ready for the mother of all rants, pump some more dark market Ozempic peptides into your brain, and hold on to your discount Chinese-cloned Neuralink Kimi4 enhanced chips.MaxximizingShared with Jumpsharejumpshare.comBeing a solo developer is a strange kind of self-endured punishment that nobody really warns you about. You go in thinking the hard part is going to be the build.The code, the architecture, the 18-hour days, and late nights arguing with your own logic until it finally clicks into place.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Medium.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from Medium
