“ You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future. ”
An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.
~ Reid Hoffman
Throwing your heart into something is great, but when any one thing becomes all that you stand for, you're vulnerable to an identity crisis when you pivot to a Plan B.
With the consumer Internet, if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've launched too late. Everyone wants their product to be shiny, great, and revolutionary, so they take too long in the development cycle to build this really shiny thing, when in fact time really matters.
Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.