| Dear jhjhjhjhj, 1. Not acting is hurting someone too. You can look at this from a psychological standpoint. I've read the other comments and I agree with some of them, especially mnicole's in which s/he says "you're opening the door for another or making them step up their game." You may be "hurting" someone, but you have the potential to help many more. So from a philosophical point, you are solid. Just remember that breaking a window to employ the window maker does not add to the system. It actually just leaves you minus a window. If you don't commit to your ideas, you're breaking the window. 2. You don't have enough information. Uncertainty. You can look at this also from a logical standpoint. What you're saying is you are immobilized due to various reasons. These reasons, we call constraints. You are in a situation saturated with so many constraints that you can effectively do nothing. Start one thing, find bad implications, stop. Start another, stop. This is a signature sign of a bad and failing system. You HAVE to change the rules by default, assuming you want to develop a better system. As such, forget this rule: If I "affect someone else badly directly or indirectly, I stop working on it." This to me is the equivalent of voodoo magic. You cannot quantify or in anyway measure the extent of your negative impacts. This means you are in a system rife with uncertainty. The special quality of uncertainty (as the 2002-2008 WS financial engineers observed) is that no matter what metrics you use, it is unquantifiable and that an overabundance denotes a system bound to fail. Your system of decision is therefore one that fails. It is not grounded in reality, but in uncertainty. You sound like a smart person ("proficient developer and entrepreneur"). You must be able to see why this is true. Do not make decisions based on uncertainty. There's literally nothing you can do for these people you believe you might be hurting. Make decisions on reality. Go for what you want. Develop your projects and feel liberated doing so. Now, having reconciled our philosophy with our logic, I hope you can find a better peace of mind to continue onward. :) |