Clankers

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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

I completely get what you mean. It’s easy to chase the immediate things, but the real work often happens when we pause and focus on what we truly want to build for the long term. The patience to resist the quick wins, especially when they come with distractions, can make all the difference. Saying no in that moment sounds like it was exactly the right call. The quiet, steady choices really do add up in the end.