| I think the main factor in my response is in how much you feel you're in control of your executive functions and emotions. If you can easily re-prioritize your tasks because abstract feedback mechanisms tell you so, and you can steel yourself to strategize and make competitive choices under pressure, even when it means you may make a tradeoff that hurts someone personally, you're in a pretty good position to operate a business around any promising opportunity, and to scale it up if needed. That doesn't mean "businesspeople should be immoral," but rather "they are able to make genuinely tough decisions in an impersonal and fair manner, and are numbed to the painful parts where the livelihood of the business depends on it." (Acid test: how ruthless are you when playing board games?) But if your mindset is more prone to meandering and getting fixated on specific problems and you get propelled by events and emotional energy around you - whether or not that adds up to a diagnosable condition, don't kid yourself. You can have a business, but it should match your personality and complement your strengths and weaknesses, and you might need a co-founder to keep you grounded. Otherwise you'll shut down or divert yourself into solving the wrong problem as soon as it gets hard. And to some extent, controlling those thoughts and feelings is something you can train up, and finding an appropriate co-founder is something you can achieve by sheer peristence, but it really sits near the top of the heap in terms of whether a commercial project with paying customers and possibly employees will be the sound thing to pursue, because there are all sorts of ways to rationalize yourself into a bad plan. If you don't think you can do it that way, you can instead pursue a side project with the intent of turning it into your next gig - something that will at least market your skills and dreams and keep you employable even if you do not have a clue of how it would operate at scale or over the long run. And that might be preferable to grinding LeetCode. |