Dreams
I ran into this article from Paul Graham a while ago. He’s from a venture capital company called Y Combinator (which seems pretty cool btw) and when I read his articles I got all dreamy and motivated and got in my “let’s do something great!”-mindset. Usually this ends in me getting excited about something and then getting distracted again with something else that’s also very cool of course. But anyway… one of the things from that article that I liked was:
When we first met the founders of Octopart, they seemed very smart, but not a great bet to succeed, because they didn’t seem especially committed. One of the two founders was still in grad school. It was the usual story: he’d drop out if it looked like the startup was taking off. Since then he has not only dropped out of grad school, but appeared full length in Newsweek with the word “Billionaire” printed across his chest. He just cannot fail now. Everyone he knows has seen that picture. Girls who dissed him in high school have seen it. His mom probably has it on the fridge. It would be unthinkably humiliating to fail now. At this point he is committed to fight to the death.
Perhaps I just need to make my plans/dreams more public so there will be more pressure to actually make them come true.
Oh and then I ran into this robot company which seems really cool and makes me wonder why I left Artificial Intelligence andandand! Wait, I’m getting distracted again.