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I quit Google to work for myself (2018)

For the past four years, I've worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It was because they refused to buy me a Christmas present.

If I spent each day choosing the right problems to solve, making the codebase better, and helping my team execute efficiently, the promotion committee would magically know this and reward me for it. I submitted my first promo packet, and the results were what I feared: the promotion committee said that I hadn’t proven I could handle technical complexity, and they couldn’t see the impact I had on Google. Continue working on KetoHub to see if I can make it profitable Build a business on top of Sia, a distributed storage technology I’ve written about frequently Spend more time writing, and look for ways to earn money from it

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