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New comment by brio09 in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

brio09 — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:30:08 +0000

https://harshal-patil.com/ I started writing 3 years ago. I'm not sure if Wix has a RSS feed, but I rate limit my posts to once a week at https://harshalpatil.substack.com/ I write about business, entrepreneurship, and tech. Nowadays also about the journey in writing.

New comment by brio09 in "A year from quitting my full-time PM job – what I miss the most"

brio09 — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:39:25 +0000

Those thoughts resonate a lot with me, thats how I thought of writing this article. 1) the drive towards a common goal 2) a group accomplishes more 3) ideally would want a job (time you are compensated for) that intersects with your interests. Building solo products appeals to me apart from consulting. But the "solo" in it is a bit tricky haha.

New comment by brio09 in "A year from quitting my full-time PM job – what I miss the most"

brio09 — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:37:14 +0000

makes sense to find the right coworking space(s) or group up with indie hackers. I recently found an indie hackers group and there was at least one person there who also missed in-person time. So maybe thats a possibility! I found one very entrepreneurial coworking space but since I'm running a (product) consultancy and not building a product, they did not take me in.

New comment by brio09 in "A year from quitting my full-time PM job – what I miss the most"

brio09 — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:22:25 +0000

That's an amazing perspective from 2 years in. A few weeks before writing this article, I tried joining a co-working space. I was there to work around people. I went and chatted with people. I went to their weekly breakfast social event. But I realized a lot of the people were in 2 or larger size companies there, so they came with their group, had lunch together, had "happy hour" time together, and went back. I also realized that although I'm there once a week to chit chat, others are there any day to work with their colleagues. How was your experience in going to co-working space when self-employed over the last 2 years?

New comment by brio09 in "A year from quitting my full-time PM job – what I miss the most"

brio09 — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:19:22 +0000

The admin side of things really pain me and I reflected on those as I wrote this article. Glad it resonates with your experiences and interesting that after a while you went back full time. Every week I'm doing new admin stuff and I would rationalize it saying "This is a starting pain" or "This is only the first time". But the stream of first-time pains never end, haha!

New comment by brio09 in "A year from quitting my full-time PM job – what I miss the most"

brio09 — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:17:55 +0000

Ah didn't realize the heading misled you. When I wrote this article, these were surprises for me too. Missing meetings? missing feedback? missing physical offices? I still don't wanna think about going to full time work again, but I still miss those aspects of full-time work vs self-employment. I would rather try lot lot harder to build a successful startup than submit resume and interview for FTE jobs.

New comment by brio09 in "A year from quitting my full-time PM job – what I miss the most"

brio09 — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:15:40 +0000

I didn't realize my article got shared on HN. Glad it resonated with you. Completely agreed with the improvements you are thinking of: 1> dedicated time. I love the flexibility of taking up projects that I'm interested in, anytime. vs a narrow scope of work as a FTE. 2> A lot more satisfaction and self-fulfillment.