You know that moment, when you are standing on the edge of a cliff, preparing to jump into the water below? You want to jump, but you also kind of don’t want to at the same time. You take a step towards the edge, but then falter and decide not to jump just yet. You take a step back, away from the open blue, back towards safety, and feel a swap of disappointment that you didn’t do it. So you […]

… is a guaranteed way to never actually start one. I told you in my previous blog that I realised that I needed to start hacking life — rethink what success means to me, and plot a course that would take me there. I knew immediately that in the process, I would have to find a project that would allow me to create something out of nothing and to be a platform for developing new skills. But I didn’t know

Back in college, a friend told me that his life plan was to study something interesting, find an awesome project to work on, make a ton of money with it and retire at the age of 30. He was a few years older than me, studying in the field of engineering, and he was one of the smartest people I knew, so I was pretty convinced he had it all figured out. The idea of retiring at 30 seemed quite