I'm glad that section resonated with you! I spent several hours writing and rewriting that section, trying to articulate what exactly I found so alluring about becoming a founder.
Last year, I considered building software for sheet metal shops,[0] and people warned me that I'd get bored building software for a market I'm not passionate about. But I never felt like that would be true because whatever the business, the part that's fun to me is getting to play with all the little knobs and levers of and seeing whether my choices yielded good results.
[0] https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2019/12/#interviewing-mach...