Back when I was making videos on Facebook, a fellow creator with a much larger audience asked me what my process was for making videos. I told him that I lived my life based on what I found interesting and made videos about it, and he promptly told me that I was doing it wrong. My videos shouldn't revolve around my life, he said. Instead, my life should revolve around my videos. I need to be willing to do whatever it takes to make my videos successful.

That kind of thinking was familiar — I had subscribed to it for a long time. I thought I needed to set my sights and make whatever sacrifices were necessary in order to achieve The Goal. Of course, as soon as The Goal was achieved, a new one would spring up to take its place because it turned out that the original one just wasn't good enough.

Thanks to psychedelics, meditation, and plain ol' life, I've been able to disabuse myself from the notion that happiness comes from achieving some goal or a specific configuration of external circumstances. Why would I design my life around achieving some arbitrary accomplishment with the hope that it'll make me happy rather than simply being happy right now? What, in this moment, is lacking?

Even though this seems obvious now, I'm aware that many people still operate from the place where happiness is to be found in the future. And I happen to spend a lot of time doing something where this kind of hyper goal-oriented perspective is the norm: building a company.

Since Browserflow's HN launch last month, I've had four different founders/firms reach out expressing interest in acquiring Browserflow and/or having me join their team. Unsurprisingly, they'd ask the question: What are your plans for Browserflow?

(Continued in Part 2)

<aside> 👋🏼 You're reading Road to Ramen, my public journal where I think aloud and share everything I learn in exploring the question: Can I make a living building things I love?

by DK the Human (@dk_the_human)

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