The current strategy of venture capital is not success, but sabotage
It's not good enough for you to be doing well, you have to strangle the competition and introduce yourself as an unremovable bottleneck
For example, becoming the intermediary between concerts and concert goers. The fees charged and the trouble caused is worse than if they hadn't been there.
Amazon makes examples out of any business that dare challenge it's dead zone around it.
VC money is meant to crush the competition and lock in the consumer to charge rent.
Why would they ever want worker control, or unions?
Why would the private healthcare industry ever stop lobbying against socialized healthcare? Why would a capitalist success ever lead to the political change necessary for it when the doctrine of capitalism is privatization
Why would any commercial real estate firm allow affordable housing to exist when they can scalp it on investment properties and leave them empty? Why build affordable housing when the margins are small?
Capitalism isn't a savior, it's just locally optimal to the people with capital.
Most things I've done were from changing the environment around me. Most things became trivially easier when I made more... So no fault there
I'd consider HARD goals, not just SMART ones
Heartfelt - core/passion
Animated - inspires/energizes you
Required - needed for a larger objective
Difficult - effort but also confidence creating
Is it something you can sustainably do, with your support system and environment and schedule, that breaths life into you even though it's a challenge?
Are you working in that 80% max effort space (or whatever it is for gym nerds, you get the point)
I wonder what this arrest tells about the average stupidity and hubris of the population, given sampling bias of "people who got caught" and "people who were newsworthy" as factors before "people who should have kept their mouths shut"
wait, what?