CYP – Introducing startupy.world
We all know “startups are hard,” but I think we tend to imagine that this difficulty is bounded, contained, modelable, a bit like running a marathon: yes, legs and lungs hurt, but that’s normal and appropriate, and we know the route, the distance, and that there’s a finish line. This is a kind of difficulty we can contend with without losing oursel... See more
Chris Best • Principles and pragmatism
sari added
startups are hard in the way life is hard, not in the way a marathon is hard, via Mills Baker
If you do what you love, the saying goes, you’ll never work a day in your life.
...I’ll admit that I had a hard time typing that with a straight face. Was it ever that simple?! In reality, tying something you love doing directly to your financial stability is logistically and emotionally fraught, to say the least.
...I’ll admit that I had a hard time typing that with a straight face. Was it ever that simple?! In reality, tying something you love doing directly to your financial stability is logistically and emotionally fraught, to say the least.
The Trouble with Passion
Molly added
The entrepreneurial archetype tells us we’re “supposed” to suffer and sacrifice, all the while devoted and dedicated, enduring the costs—the collateral damage—of trying to build a business.
Adii Pienaar • Life Profitability: The New Measure of Entrepreneurial Success
But doing what you love is complicated. The very idea is foreign to what most of us learn as kids. When I was a kid, it seemed as if work and fun were opposites by definition.
Paul Graham • How to Do What You Love
this rationale in the piece Work/Life Balance, in which he scratched out the second half of the “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” cliché in favor of a new phrase: “Do what you love and you’ll work super fucking hard all the time with no separation or any boundaries and also take everything extremely personally.”
Simone Stolzoff • The Good Enough Job: What We Gain When We Don’t Put Work First
“Whichever route you take, expect a struggle. Finding work you love is very difficult. Most people fail. Even if you succeed, it's rare to be free to work on what you want till your thirties or forties. But if you have the destination in sight you'll be more likely to arrive at it. If you know you can love work, you're in the home stretch, and if y... See more
Whichever route you take, expect a struggle. Finding work you love is very difficult. Most people fail. Even if you succeed, it’s rare to be free to work on what you want till your thirties or forties. But if you have the destination in sight you’ll be more likely to arrive at it. If you know you can love work, you’re in the home stretch, and if y... See more
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Hrisikesh Medhi added
Some people say that if you do what you love at work, you never work a day in your life. I would argue that, at least under a capitalist system, if you do what you love at work, what you love could eventually become what you hate. That is why capitalism kills creativity.
Why I Don't Make Art For a Living: How Capitalism Kills Creativity - Nadya Primak
David Pennington added