outward not upward

So, it turns out Paul Graham was right: the problem with going through tough times is not that they directly spell failure, but that they rob the momentum you have, which in turn leads to stalls and ultimately to failure. Within minutes of hearing about our rejection, I was so turned off by our project that I just picked up something else to work on, something I could still believe in. Call me fragile.

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