Choose your own business adventure
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Starts a tiny consultancy, Buckley Williams, that aims for a 35-hour week and uses paid client work plus prototypes to fund projects; builds an internet-connected radio prototype using Azure for ambient notifications every 15 minutes and a prototype collaborative health-record UI for Doteveryone aimed at policy change; recommends planning short/medium/long pipelines, double your day rate, outsource accounting and legal work, set clear success metrics tied to work‑life balance and iterate.
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- 0:00Start
- 0:07Choose your own Business Adventure
- 0:17I'm Nat
- 0:29Dump him
- 0:39Quit your job
- 2:19I was sick of having a
- 3:17Jobs are a lottery
- 4:17I don't want to perform passion
- 11:08A company as a tool
- 12:43ft feel train
- 14:16Why
- 15:09You make the rules
- 15:46control your destiny
- 16:09decide what success means
- 17:00decide what matters
- 17:29have creative control
- 18:45How
- 19:11Get paid
- 19:58Value your time
- 21:02Find mentors
- 21:35Reflect
- 23:29Recording and Production Confreaks
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