I personally have a very simple takeaway: Never half-ass two (or more) things. Always whole-ass one thing. I think the OP was not prepared to completely dive i

I personally have a very simple takeaway: Never half-ass two (or more) things. Always whole-ass one thing. I think the OP was not prepared to completely dive in to his startup project which led to distractions, i.e. side business and writing, thus compromising dev time, mental recovery time, and eventually morale.