Play a Posthuman, Uplift or Machine crewmate with your friends; guide your modular clunker of a Starship through the gloomy, dangerous pollution clouds of the far-future Scrapveil Nebula.
“Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat, to learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind, and learn the art of dying.” - Bruce Lee
To be a founder is not just tolerance of, but the ability to thrive in uncertainty. Not its avoidance, but acceptance.
Keats, the poet, coined the term Negative Capability.
"that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason"
Too many founders seek to avoid discomfort, doubt, and uncertainty instead of learn to thrive with it.
Wrongly making decisions today by weighing immediate feelings against the possibility of hypothetical large intangible discomfort/comfort.
The Hagakure asserts that the samurai bushido is really the "Way of Dying" or living as though one was already dead. To think that the way is in avoidance of death/loss/discomfort misses the whole point.
I've heard founders tell me they want to raise extra money to "feel better" or "feel safe" about things that might happen in the future.
This is just us being blind to our fatal weakness. Companies don't fail because they run out of money. They fail because the founders give up.
To be a founder without embracing and thriving in uncertainty is like trying to play tennis without a ball.
This kind of mindfulness creates the conditions for you to be able to be at peace and to go to war.
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