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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.

A month or so after clanker launched I was looking at a term sheet in my inbox. It was more money than I’d ever made and every part of me wanted it. I wanted it sooo bad, but I also knew deep down that all the stuff that had come easy would go easy too, and that the bigger challenge was going to be much more meaningful and would play out over longer time frames. only a long series of pretty quiet choices could ever assemble themselves into what I wanted. That last thing we needed in that moment was funding, we need to clarify our vision! To know what we were building beyond an experiment. 

If you’re building a career in the hot potato industry, probably good to buy a slow cooker. 

I do think it’s a lot easier to do this once you’ve secured some measure of financial security. Without it, the siren song is loud. 

Anyway, we said no. And now all the most impactful decisions we’re making are mostly things we don’t talk at all about publicly (yet). 

The feed lies to you, resist it

The masculine urge to post publicly my review of every vc we’ve talked to that I’m writing up in notion for Bryce

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wait y are u still talking to VCs then?

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