Throwback: Expect Uncertainty | Ep 808

It's it's interesting how stressful entrepreneurship can be because of uncertainty. And so like right now if we were to look back the last 15 years, we'd say something to the degree of, man, the stock market just went up 15 straight years. Like this was amazing. What a time to have invested, right? And Morgan Hassel wrote a little blog about this, and so I thought it was so interesting.

He said, uh, wait a second, that's that's not true. Like we we had a a 20% dip in 2011. We had a a a dip in in 2016, uh, 2020 obviously happened in that period of time. Uh, we had wars that didn't end. Um, and so all of these things were kind of happening, and I say this not as a political statement, but more so that um everything everything seems better in retrospect because there is no uncertainty.

We know how the story ends. And so I think in some ways it's like that can give us certainty that our current situation, despite the fact that it feels terrible, it we it always resolves or we die. And so like if you die, you don't have to worry about it. And if it resolves, you don't have to worry about it.

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