Recent content by Steve Frost

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    Job Skills How to stay focused on one long-term project as a software engineer

    Sure, but having a job is not the only way to solve this problem. The alternative is to learn how to make decisions. After all, if we look at employers, they don't have anyone telling them what to do. These people are entrepreneurs as well as writers, painters, scientists, etc. Yeah, setting a...
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    Job Skills How to stay focused on one long-term project as a software engineer

    Oh, thanks for your response! I think it’s not for me since I don’t want a nine-to-five job. I really appreciate the freedom that I have now, but with freedom comes responsibility as we can see :smile:
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    Job Skills How to stay focused on one long-term project as a software engineer

    I am already getting a part of the revenue, approximately $2,000 to $3,000 per month. It may not be much, but I don't need yachts or planes, so it's more than sufficient for me. We have been working on this business for almost a year. I don't have stock shares; I meant rather a percentage of the...
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    Job Skills How to stay focused on one long-term project as a software engineer

    For example, Andrew Wiles worked on Fermat's Last Theorem for several years straight, or take Don Knuth, who has been writing The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) for an incredible 60 years. And here I am, constantly drifting from one subject to another, unable to stick with one thing for...