founder's mentality

“Optimistic but dissatisfied is the road to progress.”

The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty.

Laborious solutions will often have more prestige in the short term. They cost a lot of effort and they're hard to understand, both of which impress people, at least temporarily.

Whereas some of the very best work will seem like it took comparatively little effort, because it was in a sense already there. It didn't have to be built, just seen. It's... See more