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If you ask me (and I think you did!) this is kind of a mini-burnout. Take a vacation - a real one. Don't think about anything, just take a month in Sicily or
by Vivtek 15y ago
If you ask me (and I think you did!) this is kind of a mini-burnout. Take a vacation - a real one. Don't think about anything, just take a month in Sicily or something. Meet some new friends who aren't in the startup scene. Go hang out with your dad, or some cousins.
Disengage.
Then come back. I'll bet you'll find you're more excited.
- open 15y agoThanks Vivtek, I honestly don't think it's being burnt out. After my last startup, I did take a leave and traveled for a bit. I think it's really more of, the ideas I'm coming up with or encountering are just not very interesting to me personally.
- Vivtek 15y agoIt's probably projection on my part, then. Ha. I've gone through this type of phase in the past. It's usually stress or lack of sleep, when it happens to me. In times when I'm happy and well-rested, I always have a background idea I dearly want to pursue. Maybe you need to engage in creative procrastination. Find something boring you need to do for a while, then sneak time to have and work on your ideas! Then, too, if I don't have a flagship project (so to speak, by which I mean a specific project I want to achieve) then I usually work on support structures that it would have been nice to have the last time around. Kind of a sharpening of my tools for the next job, I guess.