David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

I know too much.

This is one of the reasons why whenever I'm asked a question, if you could tell your younger self something that would really... What would you say to your younger self?

I would fucking not say a thing.

I would not rob my younger self of all the life experiences that I've been blessed with due to the ignorance of how the world works.

Building up the wisdom about how the world works is...

A joy.

And you've got to build it one brick at a time.

If you just handed all the results, it's like, oh, should we watch a movie?

Here's how it ends.

I don't want to watch the movie now.

You spoiled it.

I don't want you to spoil my business experience.

I don't want to spoil any of my ignorance.

The greatest blessing half the time when you're starting something new is, A, you don't know how hard it's going to be.

B, you don't know what you don't know.

The adventure is the payoff.

The responsibility is to pay off.

This is something Jordan Peterson has really taught me to articulate.

This notion that responsibility is actually key to meaning.

Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl, talks about this as well, that we can endure any hardship if there's a reason why.