The Hardest Thing

A lot of my friends say that they couldn’t start their own startup because they wouldn’t be able to self-motivate. They’d just play video games all day.

The truth is, I’ve done everything I want in my life already except have a company. This is the thing I want to do more than anything else.

The hardest thing for me isn’t self-motivating. It’s continuing to work on a project and bring it to completion.

I’ve ordered the projects that I work on in terms of simplicity so that I build up the complexity of what I work on and develop the skills necessary to work on more complicated challenges.

Constraints lead to creativity, so limiting the amount of decisions I make allows for me to apply magic in the narrow gaps of a constrained space and see if it ends up being loved.

Wrds, Trombonest, McHoops, a dozen other things which fizzled out. Everything I work on is cooler than the last and as I’m finishing up a project I want to start the coolest next thing.

There’s about five projects which I have to work on, but I’m worried I’ll run out of money before I build them all.

Maybe none of them will make money, but that’s okay :)