777 karma · joined April 26, 2007
Look back through life and build your startup around what excites you the most, and you'll have better luck sticking with it.
Advertising Secrets of the Written Word - Claude Hopkins
Anything by Seth Godin
Awesome.
The good times were great and of course programming was the last thing on my mind. The bad times were simply draining and I'd lose the drive to make progress on my goals.
Pg says make something people want and will find useful, while DHH says make something you will find useful and stick to your intuition.
I think 37signals and their manifesto make them much happier than trying to please others.
"investigations reveal that even in such technical lines such as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering-- to personality and the ability to lead people." -- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie