Chewing on these types of questions was totally unproductive and made me feel shitty. I’ve come to realize that doing startups is mostly an irrational choice. Just effing do it.
Right on. I went through this same unproductive time and finally came to a similar understanding. Though I'd argue that instead of "irrational" I'd characterize it as "extremely risky". To many people in technology and business those are the same thing. Which leaves the rest of us to take on such irrational risks and occasionally succeed...