You’re never going to get rich renting out your time.Whenever you can in life, optimize for independence rather than pay.If you have independence and you’re accountable on your output, as opposed to your input—that’s the dream.Humans evolved in societies where there was no leverage.If I was chopping wood or carrying water for you, you knew eight hours put in would be equal to about eight hours of output.Now we’ve invented leverage—through capital, cooperation, technology, productivity, all these means.We live in an age of leverage.As a worker, you want to be as leveraged as possible so you have a huge impact without as much time or physical effort.A leveraged worker can out-produce a non-leveraged worker by a factor of one thousand or ten thousand.With a leveraged worker, judgment is far more important than how much time they put in or how hard they work.Forget 10x programmers.1,000x programmers really exist, we just don’t fully acknowledge it.See @ID_AA_Carmack, @notch, Satoshi Nakomoto, etc.