balancing this with “my reward for running is I don’t have to run anymore”

both Neistat/Sachs-isms

founder operatingsystem.io | eth c/o 2015 | @ganbrood hoarder

Love him, have absorbed his ethos via the Neistat brothers

Building dynamic.xyz | @dynamic | Craft magical onchain sign up experiences  - embedded wallets, login, user mgnt, authz and more | Demo: demo.dynamic.xyz

@itai told me another version 

"Founding is like a pie eating contest where the reward for winning is... more pie."

learned this a few years ago, took some time to process it.

this was my previous job, i would get tasks/projects done faster and was then assigned more projects, spiralled into me hating the job doing 3-4x more work for the same pay

well I suppose the goal is to use your good work to buy good capital that starts to do the good work for you :P