No one can teach you to have conviction | benkuhn.net

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fast vs slow feedback • modeling people vs. modeling the problem • mentors vs. mistakes • why you should do the hard thing now

People sometimes tell me that they want to join a startup, so that they can learn how it works, and eventually start one themselves. I usually end up suggesting that they skip straight to step 2 and start one themselves. Why is that? Isn't it better to learn from someone else's mistakes than to have to make all of them yourself? At least for me, the answer's been sometimes yes, but sometimes no. For my first few years as an engineer, I was lucky to work with some mentors who taught me a ton about engineering. Things like: How to name things well, and why that's so important. How to organize co

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