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    • bill
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      2 years ago

      Heck yeah. Another great one from Ricky. As usual, Ricky's writing about entrepreneurship jives deeply with my own experiences.

      I got a lot of support from friends and family when I first decided to quit my job and start a company, but that was only the first of many leaps. After that, I switched from smartphone to flip phone, another leap, and worked for two years at a gas station in rural Vermont (2 yrs) in order to continue working on what would eventually become Readup. Leaps on leaps. Then, after a tough breakup, I lived and worked out of an old RV on a pickup truck, bouncing from one Walmart parking lot to the next (1 yr). To this day, the leaps keep getting longer and tougher, but now I'm basically used to it.

      People will celebrate the first leap or two, but then they stop celebrating, which makes sense. It used to bug me ("Look at me putting everything on the line! Again!") but then I realized that it's actually a really beautiful implicit compliment to be recognized as a regular leaper. I like Ricky's little charts (and I like thinking about my own death) so I made one of my own, slightly morbid ;P

      leaps

      • rickyyean2 years agoWriter

        Haha nice. This doesn't feel morbid. This feels very motivating actually. Let's go Bill!

    • DellwoodBarker2 years ago

      OMG ✅ True~True 🆙

      The other graph I’ve been thinking of is my anxiety level. Over the years I’ve become a more anxious person, which I’m not so enthused about. One thing with anxiety though is that it just simmers and creates discomfort, and rarely do you feel an “attack” to get you to do something about it. It’s kind of insidious and hard to pay attention to.

      Can we Import the Algorithmic Anxiety article in RU as well? Sounds like a priority read atm.

    • Florian2 years ago

      “doing a startup is about prioritizing which fires to put out, which ones to let burn, and if there aren’t any fires, it means you’re not moving fast enough.”

      Absolutely