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18: You Need Tinker Time with Adam Wathan

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CHAPTER

Uncertainty and the Importance of Work

Exploring Adam's struggle with deciding his business path, highlighting his enjoyment of certain projects juxtaposed with frustration over unsolvable problems. Emphasis on the significance of having work to prevent feelings of emptiness.

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Speaker 3
Yeah, we got to we got to back up. We ran, we just ran over the big existential question of Adam saying like, isn't that what you're supposed to do? Like, what do you want to do, Adam? I feel like you're always thinking like, well, if somebody who I don't know, somebody who actually knew how to run the business ran the business, they would do it differently. It's like,
Speaker 1
what do you want to do? I
Speaker 3
don't know. I know you say that all the time.
Speaker 1
I mean, that's the problem. Like I am doing this because I don't know what I want to do. And it is fun for the most part. So you sometimes you just get into these problems that are just like horrible because they take forever and like, it feels like there's no good answer. You know those problems where it's like, I just got to pick the least bad solution here and really be disappointed with the way the whole thing went. That's how like some of the hard things in catalyst are filled. But when I get to like jump off that and work on like a new tailwind feature that I can build on like two days, it's like, ah, hi, yes, this is fun. You know, I like work on that. But I don't know, like I could just stop doing all of it, but that's like really boring,
Speaker 2
you know, I don't have any place that. Than the opposite. That way either. Yeah. Than your super bored. So
Speaker 1
rather do this than be bored because as much as it sounds fun to just like play Fortnite with Taylor all day, which I did do plenty of anyways, you do start to feel like a hollow shell of a human being. Yeah. Yeah. Got to be some. There doesn't have to be toil, but there does
Speaker 3
have to be some work and it sounds like you've been toiling. Yeah.
Speaker 1
There's been some toiling. Yeah.

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