throwaway-001

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by throwaway-001 4y ago
> All of this might sound obvious and even a little cynical. But it's given me a strange sense of comfort and helped me find "myself". I don't think is not about being cynical. We are what we experience and for me at
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by throwaway-001 4y ago
yeah absolutely. Thank you
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by throwaway-001 4y ago
oof, had no clue about it. Probably mistake not researching it. By my experience so far I haven't seen any trace of such philosophy in the App I'm using, I guess is very well packaged for a mainstream consumption.
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by throwaway-001 4y ago
No I haven't, I wouldn't even know where to start.
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by throwaway-001 4y ago
It was never been a problem, everybody in the company knew I was running a business on the side, and I was still being recognized for my day job accomplishments, even got a promotion. I guess I made myself very efficient in getting things d
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by throwaway-001 4y ago
I do not mind work a lot, usually I don't experience burnout if I'm working on something that I'm profoundly interested into it. My sense of exhaustion comes from not knowing where to focus my energy. I guess HN could be a go
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by throwaway-001 4y ago
Don't get me wrong, I do had a couple of ideas and validate with rigor, some of them really had a little traction. But when I think, do I want to dedicate my soul to this problem for the next 5-10 years I think is not really worth it o
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by throwaway-001 4y ago
We do have a family, but again that cannot be all. I do want a deeper sense of purpose in my life knowing that I did something for somebody else, doing through a business would allow me to do it in a sustainable and focused way (not volunte
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by throwaway-001 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. > Basically, I’ve never thought about doing something because the idea itself is what’s carrying me. On the opposite spectrum, I don't think I can do something unless the idea itself is what’s carrying me.
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by throwaway-001 4y ago
You are getting closer. I think what making it even hard is, money is not an issue right now. My search and hesitation has been my mental projection of seeing myself doing that one thing in a 5 year span in a complete loss just because of m
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by throwaway-001 4y ago
That's what I'm terrified of. Was my previous success purely just based on luck and I don't have what it takes to have business born from my creativity?
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by throwaway-001 4y ago
> unless you're really in love with the problem You touched a neuralgic point of my experience that for some reason I omitted in my original post. One of my biggest source of frustration and sense of inadequacy is not feeling (or no
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by throwaway-001 4y ago
thanks for sharing, I'm not sure how I feel about that experience. That first thing that came in mind is, I don't want to end up to be so burnout that I need to drastically compensate in a similar. I believe I'm trying to pre
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Ask HN: How do you deal with entrepreneurial obsession?
40 points by throwaway-001 4y ago|59 comments