Brad Stulberg

I'm trying to get app ads placed in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and I'm constantly checking to see if I got emails back from editors.

I'm trying to get app ads placed in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and I'm constantly checking to see if I got emails back from editors.

I did it for a week, but then I put this really hard boundary on it because I know that that's ultimately unhealthy.

I did it for a week, but then I put this really hard boundary on it because I know that that's ultimately unhealthy.

And I'm using myself as an example to elucidate that A, it's very hard to be like 100% on this.

And I'm using myself as an example to elucidate that A, it's very hard to be like 100% on this.

And if you get it 60% right, it's good.

And if you get it 60% right, it's good.

And then B, so much of heroic individualism is the environment that we operate in.

And then B, so much of heroic individualism is the environment that we operate in.

So it's all fun and good to say, be where you are, so on and so forth.

So it's all fun and good to say, be where you are, so on and so forth.

But then when you try to sell sponsorship for a podcast and they're like, how many downloads do you have?

But then when you try to sell sponsorship for a podcast and they're like, how many downloads do you have?

Well, that number matters.

Well, that number matters.

So it's not saying that these end results, these peaks don't matter.

So it's not saying that these end results, these peaks don't matter.

It's just trying to help us feel a little bit better as we strive and have our self-worth be something more than an external result, which again, the big paradox is that gives you the best chance at getting the external result and actually enjoying it when you do.

It's just trying to help us feel a little bit better as we strive and have our self-worth be something more than an external result, which again, the big paradox is that gives you the best chance at getting the external result and actually enjoying it when you do.