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Sad, Tired, and Alone: My Ongoing Battle With Startup Depression
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Re: Sad, Tired, and Alone: My Ongoing Battle With Startup Depression
#102The best advice I had ever heard is to not make happiness a goal. Happiness is a state of mind. If you make happiness a goal you will spend so much effort looking for it that you will never actually find it.
Best of luck.
Re: Sad, Tired, and Alone: My Ongoing Battle With Startup Depression
#103Re: Sad, Tired, and Alone: My Ongoing Battle With Startup Depression
#104Try pitching them internationally in schools, colleges, universities... You will gain overwhelming momentum.
Re: Sad, Tired, and Alone: My Ongoing Battle With Startup Depression
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you. I wish parents taught their kids to 'know when to quit' more often. I've read stories from founders who missed the birth of their children, left their dying parents, sacrificed everything important for some dumb startup that sells shoelaces or soap or diapers. It's one thing to be persistent and another to be delusional. And the best way to find out which one you are, is when you take a step back, clear yo…
I agree. While I can have empathy for OP's feelings, when he says he's changing the world with upverter, you can't help but think he's being delusional. It's just a site that shares your mechanical drawings.. let's not get ahead of ourselves here. Your own happiness comes first, not some imaginary customers who want to use your product to make themselves more money, or inject themselves with more dopamine... they don…
Upverter has the potential to make hardware more like software by making it easier to iterate on. That's really cool.