career wise i think i'm a bit cooked on delayed gratification psychologically, esp. of the variety of like working/iterating on a startup for multiple years in stealth and/or without traction. not sure if i'm capable of doing that, but to an extent the ability to do that is what is required for outsized success

would posit this is somewhat consistent in the "brain" of our generation, esp with startup / build-in-public / twitter founder "cracked" culture becoming so widespread, it is v contrarian and perhaps psychologically difficult to quitely grind and stay focused for years on something you believe in. think many founders currently in 20s prob compensate for this by getting validation via attention, while they wait for validation via market (the real thing). 

shayne coplan good exception imo.

working for years without pmf is just dumb or fucking your investors.


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Notion and Figma each took 5 years to find PMF

Imagine either of those products if they had launched a token 6-months in 😆

Are you trying to say that you wouldn't buy a token of a word processor???????

brb launching $WORD and waiting for MS lawyers to knock my onchain doors