| My biggest problem is thinking instead of building. I’ve had and still have some great ideas, and that’s all they amounted to thus far. When I’ve started to build, I get stuck spending a lot of time to produce very little, because I try to implement a novel way to do something simple that no one would want while deploying it easily and handling requests quickly. My greatest dream is that I write something eventually that actually works and that people would want to use. My greatest fear is that either that no one would use it, because I don’t need it or understand the need for it, or that it would work, not scale, and I’d have leveraged everything and let everyone and myself down. Also, execution bores me. It’s more fun ideating, thinking and analyzing, but I’d like to be responsible for creating things that are interesting and solve problems or make life better. I’m unsure where the risk-averse creative fits into a startup CEO role. |
Accept that is the case and let yourself code anyways. Then you may end up being surprised by what you can accomplish.