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Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Tuomas Kivioja retweeted
Entrepreneurship has its risks but corporate has almost no upside now. With few exceptions, I can’t imagine anything worse than working for a big company. Am I wrong?
Tuomas Kivioja retweeted
The root problem in Europe is a deeply rooted culture that favours “keeping things the way they are” rather than risking something to build something new.
This stems from a long history of kings and aristocrats that wanted to protect the stability of the status quo.
Tuomas Kivioja retweeted
I did this so many times:
“Yeah, sorry I was stuck on a bug all day”
(In reality I was filming videos)
Tuomas Kivioja retweeted
Dubai is wild!
- no crime
- cleanest city
- sun 365 days
- 200 nationalities
- Tesla is your Uber
- best tourist places
- city of opportunities
- amazing restaurants
- affordable transportation
- community of entrepreneurs
- rent a 2023 Lambo for <$900/day
- cheaper than most Western countries
- superfast internet works even in elevators
- 0% personal tax, 0% corporate tax (>$100k/yr it's 9%)
Tuomas Kivioja retweeted
❌ Stop this:
Learn -> learn -> learn -> learn
✅ Start this:
Learn -> do -> learn -> do
Learning primes your brain to be able to do.
Doing solidifies what you just learned (otherwise you forget it)
Tuomas Kivioja retweeted
“Dubai will never settle for anything less than first place”
The UAE will be the world’s leading country by 2071. Dubai’s at the heart of this transformation.
The Crown Prince of Dubai isn’t here to take part. He’s here to win.
And I want to build toward that vision together.
Tuomas Kivioja retweeted
If you want to be disliked and distrusted by almost everyone even if you are a spectacular person:
Be flakey and unreliable.
Don’t do what you say. Show up late. Cancel at last minute.
Tale as old as time.
Tuomas Kivioja retweeted
1 bedroom apartment monthly rent (city center):
1. 🇺🇸 New York: $4,074
2. 🇺🇸 San Francisco: $3,344
3. 🇧🇲 Hamilton: $3,185
4. 🇺🇸 Brooklyn: $3,130
5. 🇺🇸 Boston: $3,101
6. 🇺🇸 San Jose: $3,009
7. 🇸🇬 Singapore: $3,002
8. 🇺🇸 San Diego: $2,985
9. 🇨🇭 Zurich: $2,869
10. 🇬🇧 London: $2,854
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11. 🇺🇸 Miami: $2,811
14. 🇰🇾 George Town: $2,697
15. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles: $2,662
22. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong: $2,252
24. 🇦🇺 Sydney: $2,181
25. 🇮🇪 Dublin: $2,180
28. 🇨🇦 Vancouver: $2,103
33. 🇦🇪 Dubai: $2,015
36. 🇳🇱 Amsterdam: $1,937
57. 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv: $1,744
60. 🇩🇰 Copenhagen: $1,732
79. 🇮🇹 Milan: $1,538
84. 🇩🇪 Munich: $1,502
85. 🇸🇪 Stockholm: $1,497
94. 🇫🇷 Paris: $1,432
100. 🇳🇴 Oslo: $1,364
106. 🇪🇸 Barcelona: $1,288
107. 🇪🇸 Madrid: $1,288
117. 🇮🇹 Rome: $1,174
125. 🇸🇦 Riyadh: $1,120
139. 🇫🇮 Helsinki: $1,052
144. 🇦🇹 Vienna: $1,030
145. 🇵🇱 Warsaw: $1,018
155. 🇯🇵 Tokyo: $954
163. 🇨🇳 Shanghai: $925
166. 🇲🇽 Mexico City: $911
195. 🇷🇺 Moscow: $760
201. 🇹🇷 Istanbul: $739
229. 🇮🇩 Bali: $639
231. 🇿🇦 Cape Town: $633
232. 🇭🇺 Budapest: $630
238. 🇮🇳 Mumbai: $588
256. 🇧🇷 São Paulo: $535
265. 🇺🇦 Kyiv: $514
286. 🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro: $472
296. 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires: $427
365. 🇮🇳 Delhi: $254
376. 🇪🇬 Cairo: $210
381. 🇵🇰 Islamabad: $156
385. 🇧🇩 Dhaka: $132
According to Numbeo
Tuomas Kivioja retweeted
Building my own apps has made me realize just how little I learned at my 9-5 corporate job as a developer.
It depends on the company of course, but building something of my own from scratch has made me 10x the developer I was at my corporate job.
As a developer in a big company, you are a small cog of a big machine - which means that you only learn some very specific aspect of the project doing some very niche tasks.
When you build something from scratch, you are forced to gain a very holistic understanding of the entire development process from 0 to 1.
After doing this, I can also now appreciate a lot more why things were done the way they are at big companies too - because I have the context of building something from the ground up and the problems that become relevant.
This is why I’m a big advocate of building big projects from scratch as a beginner - even if your goal is not to build a startup.
Because what you learn will make you 10x the developer compared to the lazy folks who just read books and then wonder why they still don’t know how to code. – at Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Tuomas Kivioja retweeted
The people who aren’t willing to pay for education don’t realize that they pay for it either way.
They either pay in money or pay in time.
(They pay with the one they value least.)
Tuomas Kivioja retweeted
One of the coolest things about being a creator, is meeting with other creators @InternetCoder
Tuomas Kivioja retweeted
Most people’s biggest problem is that they keep running in circles looking for shortcuts.
Rather than just accepting that it actually takes a lot of time & effort to get good at something valuable.
Just do the work. – at Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Tuomas Kivioja retweeted
I did a corporate internship for a Fortune 500 back in college.
When I got hired, I was given a choice of schedule:
- Five 8-hour days per week
- Four 10-hour days per week
I picked four 10's without hesitation.
The logic was simple: If I worked 4 days a week at the internship, I'd get 3 days to work on my blog instead 2.
When I was at the internship, I'd work as fast as possible so I could carve out even more blogging time while I was at the office.
During that internship, I was writing around 30 articles a month. It was a high point for my personal productivity, even though I was also working full-time.
Simply put, I was so obsessed with building my blog that I did whatever it took to carve out the maximum amount of time for it.
This is the attitude you need if you want to build a blog, a YouTube channel, or a business.
Building these things is hard. It takes a ton of time.
Most importantly, it takes obsession.
If you're not willing to start until you get the time or money to "go all in", you're not going to make it very far even if you do get those resources.
“I’ll start a channel I just need $100k first so I can go all in”
A 20-year-old said this to me at a YouTube event recently. He then proceeded to ask me for investment.
I was pretty stunned. This is a worrying trend I'm seeing a lot lately.
Here was my response:
Doing YouTube costs $0.
Don’t have fancy equipment? Many of my creator friends making $1m+ a year shoot videos and thumbnails on their phone.
Don’t have a team? Learn to do it all yourself, this in turn will make you a better leader when you do hire.
Don’t have money for expensive courses & training? Lots of the info is out there for free on YouTube anyway, and experience is the best trainer.
Have a job so you need a safety net before quitting? Don’t quit the job. Start YouTube on the evenings/weekends. I started by doing this. Didn't go all in on YouTube until I was making $80k/year.
Thinking you need “start up capital” to do YouTube is stupid.
The harsh reality is people are so afraid of posting low quality videos, they use things like this as an excuse.
If money wasn’t a problem, he’d find something else to stop him.
The way to do YouTube… is by doing YouTube.
Just post videos.
Share this message.
Tuomas Kivioja retweeted
Average software engineers salaries:
🇺🇸 USA – $120,000
🇦🇺 Australia –$100,000
🇨🇭 Switzerland – $95,000
🇮🇱 Israel – $80,000
🇩🇰 Denmark – $75,000
🇳🇴 Norway – $75,000
🇬🇧 The UK – $70,000
🇸🇪 Sweden – $69,000
🇳🇱 Netherlands – $65,000
🇫🇮 Finland – $61,000
🇪🇸 Spain – $38,000
🇵🇹 Portugal – $35,000
🇵🇱 Poland – $30,000
🇷🇴 Romania – $25,000
🇺🇦 Ukraine – $22,000
Tuomas Kivioja retweeted
My biggest lesson about why some people always succeed and some are doomed to fail:
Successful people say what they will do, and then they go and do it.
They don’t list a million excuses for why they couldn’t do it.
They don’t spend 2 weeks strategising.
They just do it.
Winners execute.
Losers plan but never take action. – at Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Tuomas Kivioja retweeted
People can community note me all they want when I say “EU is banning AI”
But the point stands that everywhere else but EU is attracting tech entrepreneurs with open arms because they know it can bring so much money to a country and create jobs for its people
While EU is consistenly making it harder with more idiotic laws all similar to the cookie law
EU bureaucrats do NOT understand software and even if they have good intentions (I think they do) the road to hell is paved with good intentions
Tech innovation will simply happen in US and Asia and elsewhere, not EU
Smart EU founders already move to US when their startup takes off, with nomadism/remote work being mainstream now, even less reason to start your business in EU
Specific EU countries are doing well: see France with the startup visas, but even then every EU country is subject to EU’s idiotic new laws (like the cookie law) that make it harder for entrepreneurs to build startups
And the laws will just keep coming because it’s EU bureaucrats incentive to go up in the EU career hierarchy
In the end you’re left with an EU with few tech startups
While everywhere else reaps the rewards from EU-educated founders who moved elsewhere to do startups
Reading up on the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
In short it’s an extensive list of requirements and validations for companies and individuals selling software in the EU.
A lot of time consuming and costly hoops to jump through. Fines up to 15 million Euros.
Oh I forgot. If your open source project accepts donations, you need to comply.
It sounds like a next level VAT-MOSS.
A method to make it even harder for new companies to compete with existing enterprises.
