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You have to stop blaming your inability to get a good team together on living in the woods. There are lots of remote teams working together. People who have n
by fnid 17y ago
You have to stop blaming your inability to get a good team together on living in the woods. There are lots of remote teams working together. People who have never met. Maybe there is another reason you can get a team together. If you keep blaming it on your geography, then you'll never figure out what you can change to get that team going.
Sure, yes, there may be a programmer deficit in the woods, but there's no programmer deficit around here. I work with people all over the country via phone, email, and internet.
To be honest with you, I would work with you, whether you were in the woods or not, if I trusted you. I don't trust you because I feel like you blame things for your problems without really trying to figure out how to overcome them. I read a lot of the stuff you write and it feels very angry to me.
Sometimes I agree with what you say and sometimes I don't. That's not the point. I work with a lot of people I disagree with all the time, but it feels to me like there is something missing in your awareness of reality. There's a gap there. I'm not sure where it comes from. Most people I work with, everyone I work with, myself included have these gaps. The problem with you is that you are hiding yours, even from yourself. You portray an image, here and on your blog of great understanding, but I don't know if that's true, because you seem to lack an understanding of free will and internal motivation.
You're picking it up a little better in this post. You own your ideas. You are responsible for their execution. In the past, it was almost as if you wanted to convince everyone that you are great and therefore your idea must be great and therefore, it's difficult for you to understand why no one would want to work with you. But what are you working on? Where is your work? That bit seems to be missing.
Anyway, I sense some pain in you. Some frustration. Some loneliness. That's not everyone else's fault though. There's a reason you choose to live in the woods. Right?
- brandnewlow 17y agoA good title for this comment would be "20 Reasons why you shouldn't be blogging." I often feel like I should be writing more about what I'm learning from my startup. Then I remember how embarrassing most of these lessons are and decide to save those stories for a day when they can do me good. Sometimes perhaps it's better for people to not hear from you for a while if you've got nothing good to report.
- fnid 17y agoI wouldn't say he should stop blogging. It's a good way to connect with people from the woods. He's putting himself out there. That's tough, but through doing it, he can learn more than he would if he didn't.
- dasil003 17y agoRambling but insightful. If there's one quality that unites successful entrepreneurs in my experience they are all proactive problem solvers. They think in terms of what they can do rather than what they can't. Eg. If you can't get a team together then start thinking about what you can do by yourself.
- rokhayakebe 17y ago+1. I launched several (3) products with people I have never met (1 had a tiny tiny bit of success with 18k users).