Every journey has its start. In programming, we usually begin with a simple "Hello World". For blogs, this would be the first post on the site. I want to use this first post to explain why I'm starting this site and to see what my future self will think of these reasons.
It's been half a year since I quit my day job to co-found my own startup alongside my year-long friend. I want to share my thoughts on entrepreneurship as they appear while working on my own company, essentially creating a public record of how I'm doing it and what challenges I'm encountering.
One might think, "When I retire, I will have plenty of time to write and share about what I had done in my life." I know some people who think this way. I even know people who want to start their own startup but don't want to quit their day job. They think of it as, "This is what I will do after I retire and have plenty of time."
Unfortunately, this never works. Even if one mustered the motivation to write down helpful tips and opinions after the fact, they would be completely obscured by the prism of memory and future successes or failures. Successful managers writing down "how they became good at managing" after the fact won't help a new manager get good. This is because they probably forget how their multi-year journey exactly looked. This is one of the reasons I think "The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You" by Julie Zhuo is a good book on management, as it acknowledges these biases.
In the past, I've completed a lot of projects and made many mistakes. Each of them has been a gold mine of experience, shaping who I am currently as a person. There were many instances in my life where writing down a quick 15-minute write-up on a challenge I've encountered would have helped a lot of people. Unfortunately, back then, I was thinking like some of my friends.
Expect this site to be chaotic. Happy reading!