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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

#101

Get laid more often. More often.

What's brilliant about this is it directly, but unmentioned, provides actual social interaction and communication with another person. Even just having a person you regularly get coffee with before work for long enough to have a real conversation would be a great interjection to the daily routine.

Re: Sad, Tired, and Alone: My Ongoing Battle With Startup Depression

#102
Hey Man, Thanks for writing this. Depression is tough, and putting it out there for the world to see makes it even tougher. Hang in there. You have been through this, so you know things will get better. It just takes time. Keep pushin, keep fighting.

The 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

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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…

That's like saying Facebook is just a site that shares your photos and comments.

Upverter has the potential to make hardware more like software by making it easier to iterate on. That's really cool.

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