Seems a little bit like the author is having something of an existential crisis at the time they wrote it. I do think success can really make you question a lot

Seems a little bit like the author is having something of an existential crisis at the time they wrote it. I do think success can really make you question a lot. Growth and success in a business very often brings with it a gnawing feeling that you are losing touch with what made you good. You can’t know everyone at your company when it gets beyond a certain size and you have to become a leader and its very different than being able to brute force problems at a 20 person company. To me this was a very long winded way for the author to recognize there was a flaw in their leadership and how to fix it. It is painful and can often take a lot of hard searching inside of oneself. edit: We organically grew our information security consultancy from 3->21 people and recently completed a successful acquisition. It is important to acknowledge that being a good business leader is not the same as being really good at a thing. The business side was always hard and we learned a lot over the 7+ years we grew the business. Staying sharp in your field and learning to scale a business is just not easy. As hackers we severely underrated the amount of business skills we would need. We learned and leveled up, but it was the hard part about the business. Building a culture. Maintaining values. Learning how to operate, contract, recruit, etc. you have to be pretty good at all of it. To me this post is like many of those soul searching meetings we had as we grew. Always asking why hire us? Why are we better? What really matters? How do we always serve our customers best. It gets deep and it is hard snd you are competing in a market where other people are doing the same thing and asking those same questions.