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No matter how well you do something, sooner or later you reach the point where you question the value you are producing for others.

This sorta reminds me of the guy who got paid a fortune to dig holes in the beach, only to see them filled in by the ocean each night. No matter; he just got paid to dig them again the next day. Wasn't long before he thought, "This doesn't make any sense - I wanna build something that lasts and that others can use."

I wonder how big a role this kind of thinking played. The fact that you're part of ycombinator suggests that it's > 0.




Little to none, though I'll cover that in a later part.


Read the Myth of Sisyphus by Camus...




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