> being in an exhausting fight against terrible odds by yourself [...] eat the shit necessary to do it I think (from experience) that's a pretty accurate way t

> being in an exhausting fight against terrible odds by yourself [...] eat the shit necessary to do it I think (from experience) that's a pretty accurate way to describe a software startup. And so as you find yourself on the floor (continuing with the fight analogy) time after time, the question starts to creep in: "What's the purpose? Am I just wasting my life?" The usual answer is to enjoy the journey, the experience (maybe getting some flow), what you learn in the process (and you do learn a ton, no question there). But the thing is, the further along you are, the less it is about learning or flow and the more it is about eating shit -- figuring out how to fix issue after issue after issue, often because of other people's poor decisions. In a sense, you become a lean and mean shit eating machine. And so the question starts to creep in again.