"If your past achievements didn't make you meaningfully happier, don't expect your future achievements to make you happier.
Remember that thing you so badly wanted? If getting it didn't meaningfully change your long-term happiness, then you shouldn't expect the thing you want right now to change your long-term happiness either.
Somewhere in the future, your today is the good old days. There is a good chance later in life, you want to live your today’s good old days, despite its shortcomings.
Benefits of a "full stack creator approach": (1) Learning in public positions you as an expert in the industry;(2) Audience-first makes marketing your product practically free; and(3) You're able to capture more value than the typical creator who is only selling attention (usually through ads / sponsorships).
Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive.