sethx

Finding a good sdk is hard. Finding a well documented one is harder. Would love to see what you consider as the golden standard for documenting sdks!

My goal is simple: Save the most money possible in 2020, and concentrate on doing meaningful work for myself in 2021.

In your experience, which kind of working arrangement, tax regime, etc is the most efficient at building up savings? I can relocate anywhere i wish, no limits whatsoever.

Freelancing is game, being employed is game, but working remote is not, because high pay remote work is extremely difficult to come around and I've never seen it in practice.

Out of the box solutions with tax residency in one country but work in another are also encouraged, as long as IT work exists in that region :)

I don't want to cut back massively on my lifestyle. Here in the Netherlands i live in a nice studio, and have a burnrate of about 3k/eur/mo . I tend to live rather frugally. No massive expenses.

I'm a software consultant. I build stuff, frontends, backends, doesn't really matter what.

I currently reside in the Netherlands, where expats like myself got a 30% tax break on their yearly gross, but I've lost that privilege now. Time to move on... I have EU and US citizenships, so the world is my oyster.

I'm wondering what my next step should be.

I've been sitting on an idea for a while, and would like to build this out to a business.

It involves a digital product, and luckily I am a developer. Before I go into any coding I want to have the concept nailed down and solid, and then commit to building it.

To start, i asked some advice in my office. I work with service designers, and they told me "refine your problem statement".

I'm currently panicking in front of a blank piece of paper at the moment. Fear of writing bullshit, fear of not knowing what to actually do, fear of it not being good enough, just paralysis. Total writer's block.

Unfortunately I procrastinate easily, due to fear of failing and due to me not being able to resolve questions such as "is this better than that?" in my mind. I would love for some kind of "process" or "structure" to guide me through the whole thing. How to get into a roll and keep building this thing, so to say.

I've read "the first 100" but i find that super vague and the thousand references the author gives keep distracting me. I think i need something a bit more rigid, like a set of tasks and examples for that on how to do it.

Is there any tool, process, formal way, that can help me through this? I don't mind paying for some product or course if it really adds some value. :)

Anything? :) Thanks <3