The best thing for an aspiring entrepreneur to be told is, 'I don't think that's a good idea. I don't think you can do that. People haven't done that before. Why do you think you can do that?' Because that gives entrepreneurs something to prove.
Life's work is a lifelong quest to build something for others that expresses who you are.
I like the action. I love meeting people. I love learning. I love being focused. I like to get into new things.
In the larger context of things, most problems really don't matter. They just don't matter.
Anything can be turned into positivity and success, even if it starts in a bad place.
If you aren't able to very crisply distill what you're trying to accomplish, then either you're going to over-constrain or under-constrain your people.
Whole lives are downstream of simple, quick acts of kindness.
You don't know you can solve it. But you've just got to try. You just got to do it.
Systems and tech and budgets and customers and sales, all these things are really, really important, but you can't achieve excellence in those things without fantastic people, without fantastic leaders.
If you're experienced, you know why not to do something or how not to do something. Whereas if you're a young engineer you don't have that negativity towards certain things.
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