Building a business is recursive.
There's no given problem to solve. No given customer. No given salary. You invent it all at once, and nobody pays you until you do. This is the daily pep-talk for that life.
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Done is not the same as working
Building something that passes every internal test and shipping something a real user can actually complete are two different jobs.
The problem behind the problem
Every fix reveals what was hiding behind it, and there was no way to see it sooner.
Running and working are not the same thing
Launching means the system is on. It does not mean anything is actually happening.
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