If you worked twelve hours a day this week,
and you worked the weekends too,
and you gave up your hobbies,
and you stopped going to the gym,
and you couldn't sleep at night,
and you could barely wake up,
and you ate lunch for dinner and dinner for breakfast,
and you almost got sick at your desk,
and you went straight to bed the moment you got home,
and your head kept spinning,
and your throat kept closing,
and you got short with your parents,
and you rushed through every conversation,
and you turned on yourself,
and your mind went numb,
and you finally took a day off,
and you felt like you let the team down,
and you felt like you let yourself down,
and you felt like you gave the best parts of yourself away,
and you felt empty.
then I feel you.
You are doing something most people will never be able to relate to,
and spending yourself on others is a real and rare kind of love.
I see you. I love you.
Nothing about building a startup is natural.
Teams are reaching for supernatural outcomes with supernatural tools.
Accelerating into change, remaking the world, chasing what refuses to slow down.
Of course it stirs up all of this in you, and more.
Outside of this, you are a completely normal person.
Take the days you need to live like one.
Slow the time down, quiet your head, and find the clarity waiting underneath.
I'm in this with you.