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Daniel Vassallo
Personal blog · dvassallo.medium.combusinesscareer
Daniel Vassallo's personal blog at dvassallo.medium.com covers business and career. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts (2019)”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Daniel Vassallo's Medium posts on intrinsic motivation, leaving employment, and bootstrapping a small business selling PDFs and videos. Commenters use them for career-change discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts (2019)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-07
What Hacker News says?
I think the parent OP is different than Daniel. Daniel worked at Amazon / AWS for 8 years https://dvassallo.medium.com/only-intrinsic-motivation-lasts...
Comment linking /only-intrinsic-motivation-lasts-92c0497cf97c
on “No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees”Submitted Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts (2019) as a story · 52 points
HN discussion(2019). If you're wondering what happened next, he bootstrapped a business selling PDFs and videos and claims to be have made over $200k off it in 2021. https://dvassallo.medium.com/from-employee-to-bootstrapper-9...
Comment linking /from-employee-to-bootstrapper-941f061f207f
on “Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts (2019)”Submitted Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts (2019) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf you have the capacity to quit, in other words, enough savings to explore what you like for a couple of years. Do it and see what sticks. There's this guy on Twitter who quit his job at Amazon while he was in a senior position because he was not motivated to work there anymore. He's in his early 30s too. Long story short, he's now doing well with his own projects and is happy with his current life. Have a read on…
Comment linking /only-intrinsic-motivation-lasts-92c0497cf97c
on “Ask HN: Should I quit software development?”Submitted Making the Unpredictable Predictable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making the Unpredictable, Predictable as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Variable income makes me smarter as a story · 1 points
HN discussion