This is your human lint:"its," not "it's." Second paragraph, '20 percent of it's value.' /me goes back to reading. Edit: okay, finished. Great observations.

This is your human lint:"its," not "it's." Second paragraph, '20 percent of it's value.' /me goes back to reading. Edit: okay, finished. Great observations. > "[...] These things all raise the expected value (in my mind at least), so if they are mostly true, and I'm excited about the best-case outcome, and I'm comfortable with the worst-case outcome, then it's probably a good gamble." 'If I'm excited about the best-case outcome ...' This can be a big problem for some people. I like difficult things, but I'm excited by freedom, and the "best-case" outcomes for a lot of my really 'ambitious' ideas just don't sweep me off my feet. If the best outcome is lots of money for lots of work, for instance ... well, I do lots of work for no money at all right now, but is it worth shouldering that "moral weight" that I hear doing an ambitious startup entails? A best-case outcome for me is one that I produced without committing myself to do so. Maybe I'm just a coward, or maybe I've just been burned by committing myself too rapidly in the past. I'm doing a startup, but it's really just a small business with some friends that happens to run custom software. Maybe it'll turn into something more, but I'm not committing to that! ;)