Quit Your Job. Srsly.
summary
Argues that if failure were impossible the right move is to quit your job today, using a thought experiment that asks what’s really stopping you and an example salary of $10,000 uplifted by give yourself a raise plus another 25%. Runs through concrete tech milestones that actually reshaped culture — Ada Lovelace, Engelbart’s demo, ARPANET/email, UNIX/C, Xerox PARC, Apple, Linux, Ruby/Rails, Wikipedia — to claim software is the now and to push building something of real, measurable impact.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:50Quit your job today
- 3:17Job market and worth
- 5:03Reasons to leave
- 6:27Software as defining craft
- 7:12History of software achievements
- 12:46Do meaningful work
