Me: Why does it all have to take so long?
Matt: Because then we’d do the work, and it would just be done and over.
Me: Yeah, then we’d just sit around and drink coffee and talk to each other. That’d be HORRIBLE.

There comes a point in everyone’s career where you start to wonder just what in the world you’re doing, and how on earth you ended up there. We don’t talk a lot about these moments — until after we’ve reached the next milestone, the Next Big Thing, and then we have the liberty to confess our confusion and doubt, since it’s over with.

I’m currently part-way through the confusion and doubt phase, but I had the good fortune to get some huge doses of insight and advice in the last few weeks. Whenever I’ve shared those things with my close friends, they’ve had the same “Holy crap!” moment that I had. So, I thought it might useful for more people if I shared them with a wider audience.

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