MVP hell and ditching overwhelm for friends.

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Today’s issue: Trapped in MVP hell, I ditch overthinking for friends (and sanity) with a plea to break the cycle.

We are taking a slight detour from what I’m doing business-wise for an unsolved and hopefully relatable issue.

This weeks ‘socializing’ can be summed up in one run-on sentence:

“I’m sorry I didn’t respond to your message, I've been losing my mind overcomplicating MVPs even though I said I wouldn’t, trying to get my anxiety back in order, and wondering when a drag and drop site became complicated or if I’m just losing brain cells, let’s catch up soon!"

Okay, okay, maybe MVPs aren't your stressor. Maybe life's actually awesome for you (seriously, hope so🤞! ). But prioritizing gets rough when you're building something and stressed, even though you know seeing friends keeps you sane-ish — even though you swear you’ll respond tomorrow*.

Tomorrow*: A weird word that somehow means days, weeks, months, and even years but rarely ‘tomorrow’.

Curious what’s really getting in the way or what rules you have in your head that says now is not a good time? Weird how becoming an adult you really start using the ‘I’m busy’ card even though we have a few minutes here and there for distractions like 10 minute bathroom scrolls, internet rabbit holes or looking up and having zero idea what we did the last 20 minutes.

But don’t worry. I’m calling myself out too.

But it’s funny. I finally reached out to a friend just to check in and found out the MVP hell I’ve been putting myself through with the API wouldn’t work — from someone with an actual background in this area. It took him one message and me a week.

Moment of silence for my time.

And another call where I feel less insane and remember there’s a whole world beyond my laptop and obsession with getting a win.

Anyway there’s no ‘how to fix this issue’ in this writing because I don’t have it and also I’m no expert. I just had one of those daily mental ‘wtf am I doing?’ and got enough strength to stop for a minute.

In case you don’t have that moment of clarity in the next 2 minutes, this weeka question is actually a request:

Reach out to 3 friends and schedule a catch-up in the next few weeks. 15 minutes is all it takes! (Think: car ride, takeout wait time).]. Consider this a ‘please see the difference spending a lil time with people you care about can do for both you and them.’

1. More on business-ish stuff next week. Just know this is the source of this weeks obsession and remember ‘anime pfps for discord’.

2. When I’m a mess, one of my coping mechanisms is answering requested answers about relationships on Quora. It’s been 2 years now.

3. Remember when I sent a pitch deck to a founder I loved? Yeah, well the CMO sent me an invite to a deck talk they’re promoting(?). I’m weirdly excited even though I lowkey got told ‘your deck sucks’. Feels like a story.

4. Stalked Facebook on a low, and found a highschool classmate that ended up becoming a real chef — with his own restaurant not a home cook or random saying ‘I’m a chef’. So now we’re having a call to see where I can help him with some art direction he’s taking bc the kitchen burnt him out.