Feeling pretty unfulfilled.

Wraith29 · 2017-10-01T21:22:06+00:00

if you have food, and clothing, and a roof over your head - you're doing pretty good. if you aren't in trouble with the law, or have any debt - you're doing very good.

glass half full bud.

MajorRobotnik · 2017-10-01T18:31:16+00:00

Welcome to life. Might I recommend a grown man's hobby? Even I can only play so many video games, that's why I got a motorcycle.

Fyodor007 · 2017-10-02T03:36:02+00:00

You know what man? Sometimes it's okay to just do nothing for a while. It won't last forever, you'll get a wild hair sooner or later, but you don't have to force it. Enjoy the hollow times, sometimes it just takes time for all the pieces you aren't aware of to fall into place for your next big thing.

If it's peaceful, sit with that a while. It won't last forever.

WikiTextBot · 2017-10-02T07:18:22+00:00

You do know (and NEED to know) that the majority of that whole:

I wanted to change the world by

...is PR bullshit, right?

-- You can pretty much take your pick of any so called "icon" or "rock star" super-successful tech guy who "Changed the World" and...

The reality is whatever innovation they supposedly "created" -- was virtually inevitable and in fact likely going to be accomplished anyway, and in fairly short order -- if not by them, then by someone else/some slightly different version of the same "innovation." To wit:

--

Bill Gates and BASIC, or DOS (or indeed Windows95)... well in all three cases there were alternative choices (Gates & Allen didn't create BASIC they just implemented a variation on the language; DOS was really just a shitty knock-off of CP/M; and Windows95 was just one of many different GUI environments that were already existent or in development).

--

Or take Steve Jobs... the Apple II was just one of many different (dozens indeed hundreds of) personal computer products that sprang up around the same time; had Apple NOT come into existence, well in all honesty some OTHER personal computer would almost certainly have "filled the slot" just as adequately.
And then with Macintosh, well THAT was based on decades of Xerox PARC concepts & work (and indeed several Xerox employees @ Apple) -- moreover Xerox quite intentionally admitted the Apple team to the PARC facility, precisely because Xerox wanted to have a PC manufacturer to take their ideas to market (not only that, but Xerox owned a substantial chunk of Apple at the time, and profited quite handsomely from it in that regard, as well as from various "licensing" deals that had been done behind the scenes but are seldom talked about {would lessen the "legend" of Jobs/Apple/Macintosh, etc}).

-- Likewise, the iPod & iTunes were nice, but really it was only a modest improvement/innovation on, or next iteration of other MP3 players, and came after & was modeled on Napster.

-- Same really with the iPhone -- it was more of a "bleeding edge" consequence of innovations/advances that were already being made by LED screen makers, chip makers, phone manufacturers, etc -- had the iPhone not come into existence, well one or more of the OTHER fairly similar design (& "app" supporting) "smart phone" environments would have (to wit Google's Android was actually in development years before the iPhone was introduced, Android was founded in 2003, bought by Google in 2005, and while "influenced" by the iPhone, probably would have ended up following a fairly similar development path and been released on something like the same timeline regardless).

--

I could go on (and on) with many others -- whether Henry Ford, or whoever the "changed the world" icon may be, most of the "legend" is PR bullshittery to cover that they "copied" others innovations (possible/probable exception being the Wright Bros. who truly DID "innovate" in multiple ways that no one else had even conceived of, much less were attempting; but OTOH realistically even with them, whether that would have remained that way, and/or for how long... is anyone's guess; chances are OTHER innovations {smaller production ICE motors, stronger/lighter-weight materials, etc} would eventually, and probably inevitably within a decade or so, have nevertheless led other inventors {and there was no lack of projects} to powered flight & the discovery of the same "control" innovations the Wright Bros. came up with... regardless of whether they'd succeeded when they did -- and remember it WASN'T an overnight "success").

-- Point of all of that...

Is that a lot of the men who "Changed the World" -- did so in many ways because they were serendipitously in the "right place" at the "right time" and with the "right combination" of things -- had they NOT been there, then very likely someone ELSE soon would have.

And in fact, in most of those cases, there WERE in fact several prior innovators who had often been "in position" with essentially the SAME combination... the world just wasn't quite ready for it (and not in any mystical or psychological sense... but in more pragmatic ways; production capacity, other products or issues, etc) -- in a very real sense these men & companies "failed" (or at least failed to "Change the World") not because of any real "error" on their part, but rather because they were in fact "ahead of their time"; and/or just not in the "right place" (a thing that can really ONLY be known with 20/20 hindsight, and then possibly ONLY in a dubious "that which succeeded" sense -- tweak any of a dozen other minor things, and they too might have been "failures" and largely forgotten).

-- So, while it seems kind of "trite" to say... you really DO have to take a lot of the "Think Different" and "Change the World" and assorted other bullshittery that such so called "titans" or "icons" claim as the recipe or key to their success...

Take those things (PR "myth" bullshittery that they are) with a HUGE grain of salt; and realize that -- at least to a certain extent -- it's like listening to the "how to get rich" advice from a powerball lottery ticket winner!

As for your product & your business...

Instead of faulting yourself for failing to reach that essentially highly improbable & virtually unreachable goal of "changing the world" -- ask yourself a couple of other questions:

DID you do a good job of it overall? ... not perfect, not "error" free, to be sure (no one's efforts EVER are), but -- given the same circumstances, the SAME knowledge, etc (and ZERO 20/20 hindsight info) -- would you be confident in taking the SAME basic approach, working at it with the SAME intensity, etc?
GIVEN what you all know NOW... with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, what (specifically) would you change? And then ask yourself whether there was really ANY way you could have actually/practically have KNOWN to take that different approach, or make THAT change... back then? (IOW did some part of the "world" change or shift underneath your feet in an unexpected and unpredictable fashion... often shit like that just DOES happen; and as the saying goes, The best laid plans of mice and men; Go oft awry.)
WHAT have you learned from it... things that you can apply to future endeavors -- i.e. #1 & #2 above -- both things you would change AND things you wouldn't change because, actually (damnitall!) you probably did them RIGHT the first time.
Finally, understand that THAT business is NOT you... ending IT does not end YOU -- it was just ONE business you could start, ONE path you could go down -- you can in fact "pick yourself up, dust yourself off"... and call yourself "Michael Finnegan... Begin again." The last question then isn't so much whether you're going to "begin again"... but rather how and in what way you will choose to do so; your options are now, once again "open ended," you can even choose to look at it in a positive way: you are FREE to try something ELSE now.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” -- Theodore Roosevelt

So from that also KNOW this.

Lots and LOTS of men (probably the vast majority) end up in old age, retirement, or even on their death beds... still WISHING that -- at some point in their life -- they had taken at least ONE "swing" at starting their own business...

-- THAT is the kind of "regret" you will personally NEVER have to experience... no matter WHAT you choose to do next.

-- Best wishes... been there, done that, have the t-shirt to prove it.

;-)

CHEERS!

Fraccles · 2017-10-02T01:42:49+00:00

I was listening to a podcast a while ago that touched on this. We as a western society don't have a direction or a goal and no one is talking about it. It's all just left up to individuals to come up with their own thing, which usually ends up as owning consumerist distractions.

I suggest small things like going to the gym every so often, it can provide a morale boost as some kind of longer term achievement.

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