What drives us to entrepreneurship…

I definitely think that within the community of developers who are not going and getting a stable dev job, but instead are doing indie hacking or something along those lines, there’ll be a tendency in their personality that prefers exploring unknowns and figuring things out on a bigger scale than you might be able to do if you are doing a regular salary job. The salaried job will still have unknowns in the work that you’re doing, but may have more knowns in the structure of your day and so on.

…is different to traditional “dev” skills…

Some of the skills that are helpful as a software developer are particularly logical, analytical, systematic, predictable ones, and these often line up with wanting the stable 9-5, too. But not always. So as entrepreneurial developers we end up in an interesting niche of people who can do that more systematic thing but then also perhaps have more of a need for uncertainty, creativity, independence.

…but that doesn’t make it needy.

Is it needy to be needing such a “more”? I think “needy” can have negative connotations, whereas it’s incredibly positive to have needs (we all do), to recognise those, and to express those. If you feel more fulfilled by that higher level of exploration and problem-solving and creativity, there’s nothing needy about that. You’re simply recognising what fulfils you, owning that, and honouring that. That’s commendable.