Please forgive me if the content of my message is already in others.
Maybe I could have written your message, a couple year ago. I am not succeeding now to our hacker/entrepreneur/whatever startuper's standards, I am just cooler about it.
First point, you may have talent, you may work hard, and you may just miss the point. Don't ruin your days, enjoy what you are doing. The point of life is not money or fame, or other form of success ; it's happiness. You may work hard on a smart idea and fail, luck is in the game too, admit it. Work, skills and being smart are playing, but luck still be here.
I have read that Rovio's last try was called Angry Birds, I don't think they radically changed something.
One of the biggest benefits I have in my life wasn't a book, it was two weeks break from any internet access, and phone. I had my computer though. You are in the middle of a battle in everyday life, the Braveheart like. Have a break, see the big picture. Do not hit the repeat button by habit, habits are bad when they are here for intellectual comfort. Use your brain, question what you do and how you do it. Have breaks, breaks are important for those things.
Take care of your family, friends and girlfriend. They are invaluable, they may be the source of that little luck you need, they are a good point of reference. Don't become that jerk that place eveything behind his work!
Don't be ashamed to come for a working class environment, you may know more about life and business than those spoiled children we see everywhere.
Should the whole Valley be considered as producing only WhatsApp ? Today's revolution are running on Twitter and Facebook, those dummy, useless, whateveryouwant services are enablers to people.
We are talking about the Valley that is the birth place of Tesla and AirBnB, I wouldn't rate those ones as useless, or solving problems that doesn't matter.
Do that stupid thing: a todo list. Write what you want on it, set priority, set a lifetime for the todo list (like say it's for three month), setup deadline for some achievements like (30 hours of by june), update your todo list.
You'll keep track about what you have done so far and it will remove that feeling that you will meet at some point that you haven't achieved anything.
The key is to review your todo list regularly : to know what to do, to remind you of your objective, to write down that you have actually done something and also, very important, to update it by removing what doesn't interest you anymore and adding new stuff.
I have a three months todo list, with all the big things in my life, I have milestones or targets for all these. I find it pretty efficient.
* No phone number nor contact form for any kind of support. * No way to change to change my password (or I didn't find it). And I don't like to be forced to keep those "randomly" generated password. They seem to have reduce everyextra to 0, their lean customer service is way too lean to my taste. Destroying obvious features to make your customer upgrade is bad.
It's cheaper for a similar quality. However I've experienced great pain with online.net: if you do not fit in their box, their administrative pain can kill you. No matter how hard you try to beat it. They will slam you with garbage.
Twice (in different context) I have tried to use online.net and fallback to OVH/Kimsufi. Why ? First time unability for them to sell servers, second time unability for them to get paid.
Please forgive me if the content of my message is already in others.
Maybe I could have written your message, a couple year ago. I am not succeeding now to our hacker/entrepreneur/whatever startuper's standards, I am just cooler about it.
First point, you may have talent, you may work hard, and you may just miss the point. Don't ruin your days, enjoy what you are doing. The point of life is not money or fame, or other form of success ; it's happiness. You may work hard on a smart idea and fail, luck is in the game too, admit it. Work, skills and being smart are playing, but luck still be here.
I have read that Rovio's last try was called Angry Birds, I don't think they radically changed something.
One of the biggest benefits I have in my life wasn't a book, it was two weeks break from any internet access, and phone. I had my computer though. You are in the middle of a battle in everyday life, the Braveheart like. Have a break, see the big picture. Do not hit the repeat button by habit, habits are bad when they are here for intellectual comfort. Use your brain, question what you do and how you do it. Have breaks, breaks are important for those things.
Take care of your family, friends and girlfriend. They are invaluable, they may be the source of that little luck you need, they are a good point of reference. Don't become that jerk that place eveything behind his work!
Don't be ashamed to come for a working class environment, you may know more about life and business than those spoiled children we see everywhere.