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Cal

July 28th, 2011 at 6:47 pm

Brian, do you think you could do a follow-up post about living with DSPS? How are you coping now? For example, how does it affect your job at AirBNB? Do they have established office hours or do you have the freedom to work outside those established hours?

I find that every one of my ambitions is being stifled or put off by a schedule that I can’t control.

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Brian Armstrong

August 2nd, 2011 at 5:43 am

Hi Cal,

That’s a good question. The short answer is that Airbnb is very accommodating with that hours their engineers work.

I usually get in to work at 10:30AM and stay till around 8pm. (Although on occasion we work till midnight or 3AM.)

This 10:30AM arrival time combined with melatonin to help me fall asleep around midnight or 1AM has allowed me to have a relatively normal lifestyle with it. It’s really the combination of those two things, melatonin plus a job with a flexible start time.

I feel very lucky to be in that position!

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703m

February 12th, 2012 at 11:50 am

I agree, sometimes we limit the working hours in blogging and that makes our ideas to be lost shortly

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[R]

September 16th, 2011 at 8:02 am

Stumbled upon your blog as I was googling “How to start an online job website” – No idea why it got me here, but I am really glad it did.
I have read a few blogs/books in the past and most of them have a very similar tone to what they say and how they expect to transform your life.
IMO your book was similar, where you wrote in the best possible way you could the stuff you did in your life which helped you.

What I really liked though was chapter 5. It was like having a career guidance session with your school counselor only much more personal. As if you were holding the reader by his/her hand and taking them through each and every step. I cant thank you enough. All this said and done I still haven’t figured out what I really want to do, but I am sure going through those exercises a few times should clear out the fog in my head.

It isn’t going to be long before I realize what it is that I really want and should be doing and all the credit will be yours. :)

I looked at some of your projects and all of them are great. Absolutely love thebookr.com. Universitytutor is a great idea too, although I don’t understand what is in it for you? How do you generate income out of it? Or are you just doing it for kicks?

P.S. I rarely ever leave any comments on blogs/articles/anywhere really lol !!
But I really wanted to say thank you for sharing your book. It has definitely changed my perspective and I’m sure make my life a lot more fun !!

Thank you very much
[R]

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Starting Your Own Business Ideas

September 25th, 2011 at 10:16 pm

Wow, That thebookr.com sure looks good. So clean – just let the photos do the talking. Very inspiring – (looks at the html source code and cackles in a sinister manner) Lol, just kidding!

I still can’t get over your 46 ways to start a business with no money – there’s more value gathered there in one place than in 99% of the Internet!

Derek

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Mr. Realestate

September 26th, 2011 at 9:06 am

really informative article…

MR. Realestate

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Bam

September 26th, 2011 at 10:34 pm

I want to start my own business

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September 30th, 2011 at 10:14 pm

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harish pawar

December 8th, 2011 at 2:51 pm

Hi Brain,
It is great Blog, i always enjoy reading your ideas & books. i plannig to open a small store in our area. kindly requesting you give any advice to me to become a successful business.

Thanyou

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