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Discussion on: How to Write Software: 5 Lessons Learned from Running Businesses

 
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Erik Dietrich

In a sense, I'm the wrong person to ask about this. My readership demographic for my site skews heavily toward senior developers looking to become consultants/freelancers/business owners, and those folks write into me with reader questions pretty steadily. So, yes, I see a ton of developers who want to go indy, but I'm probably experiencing a lot of sampling bias, so caveat emptor :)

As for the post, I found it. Looks like I wrote it about a year ago, musing about how salaried work can teach you some bad lessons about going independent: daedtech.com/employment-teaches-yo...

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Roberto Mazzoni

Thank you, Erik. I have found your post quite original. It does relay a different viewpoint than what I have found so far. I am referring particularly to the subject of passion as a selling point. I image you would still want to be somewhat passionate about what you do, otherwise, it might be a drag, but I see how that would not be a winning business proposition for a client. I will read more of your content as I see you have a very practical and clear approach to the field. It is amazing that you have a content generation company. I come from content myself, having been the editor in chief and a journalist of some major computer magazines for a while. I know very well what you describe as priorities in content generation :)