When you set yourself up with a startup idea, with no opinions, with no customers, with no revenue, searching for amorphous goals that are ill-defined. Working with strangers. You could not create a shittier environment to ever do anything good. And it's a riff on this man. I actually think what you're talking about and what I always suggest founders do is intentionally set up motivators,. like psychological motivators around you to intentionally game yourself.
Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel talk about solutions in search of a problem, whether or not to follow your passion, how to figure out what to work on, and how to motivate yourself.
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