Battle Log #5 – The Psychology of No Salary

What does it feel like to live for two months with zero income?
No salary. No earnings-related allowance. No benefits of any kind.

This week’s episode is pure self-reflection from exactly that situation.

In the video, I dive into themes like:

• Why this is actually the perfect moment in my life to make the leap into entrepreneurship
• How uncertainty can still gnaw at you — even when you’ve built financial buffers
• Planning future salary payments
• What do you gain by accepting uncertainty?
• Why it doesn’t (really) feel that bad
• And how my sailboat somehow ties into all of this

Two months is obviously still a tiny sample size. It’s easy to talk big in a life situation like this. But first impressions often tell you a lot — let’s see how well they extrapolate into the future.

The more detailed breakdown is on YouTube, but the TL;DR:

From a somewhat Zen perspective, the paradox of entrepreneurship is this:
In exchange for uncertainty, you buy yourself a significant amount of freedom.

🎬 Full video below (in Finnish)