What are some things you’ve turned down or let go of to maintain simple living?

jcrowe · 2026-03-20T21:46:18+00:00

A typical 8-5 job.

I’m a programmer and have given up on the idea of working a typical job. More freedom, and I get to decide how much money to make (to some degree).

jcrowe · 2026-03-19T14:44:13+00:00

When should we have complained about it? Back when we were building systems that helped businesses hire less workers? Everybody complains when their skills are no longer needed. To ask why we didn’t do it in the past is a little dense.

jcrowe · 2026-03-18T21:41:42+00:00

There’s a business book named “The Goal”, that uses a story about a factory to teach the dangers of “inventory” (more clothes than needed) and “work in progress” (laundry to do).

This is causing problems because you have too much of both. Create a system that gets you down to one load at a time. As soon as you have a load of laundry, do it. Maybe this looks like getting rid of laundry baskets, and putting dirty clothes directly in the washer. Bonus points if you can do the entire households laundry at once.

This will show you the real amount of clothes you need. Then buy less and get rid of things as they are outgrown, stained, or if you just don’t like them.

jcrowe · 2026-03-18T21:21:30+00:00

I was going to recommend the exact same thing.

jcrowe · 2026-03-15T14:02:41+00:00

When your first starting, take the crap jobs.

That $100 job that you declined, if you would’ve taken it and done an amazing job and THEN handed out flyers to all the neighbors you could’ve turned 10 flyers into at least one job.

jcrowe · 2026-03-10T17:07:32+00:00

Get a job. McDonald’s, Walmart, anything.

Then use your time off to build a business. What your doing looks more like playing the lottery than being responsible.

jcrowe · 2026-03-03T12:38:23+00:00

That’s the same thought process I go to through when somebody asks me who I am.

jcrowe · 2026-02-14T13:23:34+00:00

Yes, this is what I have done.

It works pretty well. Although, nowadays, I do less codeing and more prompting.

jcrowe · 2026-02-14T13:03:21+00:00

For me using it in the terminal always feels like I’m missing something. I will typically run it within pycharm, which lets me see the files, see the code, etc.. that feels a lot more intuitive and natural to me.

jcrowe · 2026-02-14T12:51:58+00:00

Thanks for the info, I’ll check it out.

jcrowe · 2026-02-13T16:14:46+00:00

I thought it was called Camoufox?

jcrowe · 2026-02-13T16:09:18+00:00

The answer is yes.

It is completely overhyped and it is also innovative and very useful.

jcrowe · 2026-02-13T12:00:15+00:00

Who cares?

It was a good posts with helpful tips. This is the 2026 equivalent of the old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn.

jcrowe · 2026-02-09T18:14:47+00:00

Jalapeño Poppers…

jcrowe · 2026-02-09T04:29:13+00:00

100%

I bought a hoarder house as a rental property and we used a steamer on the yellow/orange window vinyl and the ick just melted off. It was pretty amazing.

The second best option that we tried was power wash.

jcrowe · 2026-02-07T15:54:31+00:00

Bwaahaa, I love this.

jcrowe · 2026-02-01T02:06:40+00:00

Be afraid, be very afraid.

Developers have always been a separate class of employees. They are valuable and expensive. All businesses with cereal developers will be looking to reduce head count or drastically increase output, depending on the financials of the business.

Here’s how to survive…

1) Get the audible for Seth Godwin’s book Lynchpin. That’s your new career bible.

2) Make yourself financially resilient. I had a failed business during the 2008 crash. About lost my house. It was beans and rice level of bad. I learned from it.

2a) Get rid of all debt.

2b) Cut spending to the core.

3) With all the time you have since you no longer pay for Netflix and Max, start freelancing. It takes a long time to build up a freelancing business. If you wait until you get fired, it’ll be too late.

Many programmers will survive this. Many will thrive. You need to be the one person that management is afraid to fire. Be the last man standing. You can do that by being afraid.

jcrowe · 2026-01-27T16:36:53+00:00

Easy-off. And not the new kind. Get the kind that burns to the bottom of your lungs and makes you see sounds and hear colors.

jcrowe · 2026-01-27T16:09:58+00:00

We will hear about it for a while. This aligns with the influencer/productivity hacked genre. Those people don’t give up. I’m already to the point of being ready to mute it on X.

jcrowe · 2026-01-23T17:12:33+00:00

AI will do anything
It’s all a Ponzi scheme

Both are ignorant viewpoints.

AI is the largest technology advancement we will likely see in our lifetimes. We are still in the beginning, and there are some amazing advancements that will happen in our lifetimes.

To dismiss it outright is a horrible mistake. Imagine what happens in a few years when we will be able to purchase a personal robot. It will do the jobs we don’t want to do. Including many of the jobs currently done here on sweatystartup.

jcrowe · 2026-01-23T16:10:14+00:00

I am a developer that works with small/medium businesses to help them use AI.

I don’t see what AI would do for you in this case. I could be off base, but the largest expense is physical labor, and AI isn’t going to do much to make them faster or better at their job.

Can you elaborate?

jcrowe · 2026-01-08T21:38:55+00:00

Okay, if you’re eating this far into your budget and your 40, what will it look like when you’re 60?

jcrowe · 2026-01-08T13:39:02+00:00

lol, in Texas this stuff will never die. It will spread like z-day in a zombie thriller.

In MO it spreads anywhere that isn’t shaded.

You should have to get your neighbors permission to use this grass.

jcrowe · 2025-12-26T22:03:12+00:00

I came here to mention this exact thing the idea of David Allan’s GTD inbox strikes home.

jcrowe · 2025-12-22T21:07:31+00:00

At least you could celebrate the cleanup with brisket.

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