3 types of hard work only indie hackers will understand: Unfamiliar, emotional, and never-ending, and how to manage each one.
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Amazingly helpful! I get so tired being an entrepreneur and have found it hard to always understand why, especially when the tasks I do, don't necessarily seem like they should be mentally challenging. But you make such a great point that there are different types of hard work. Thanks for helping me recognise this, and for providing solutions : )
This is sooooooooooo true. Try explaining to a person in a non-creative industry what you've done all day, and they'll be like 'oh so you JUST had a brainstorming session, wrote some ideas on post-its and then blogged a bit'. As if it's the easiest thing in the world. Being an indie maker is HARD WORK. The decision fatigue and emotional stress you get from being creative is unparalleled to anything I experienced in a non-creative 9-5. Thanks for drawing attention to this!
This definitely resonates, and probably applies to business founders in any industry - even if the primary task at hand is manual labour.
As a founder, the sheer cognitive load of being self-directed all the time can be very challenging. Even as the most proactive employee in a corporate job, nothing compares.
Yeah i totally agree everything seems easy till you try it then you are stuck but as a CEO of a dev company criov.com i have to build a community
Good luck to all of us
Thanks for posting that @rmondo! I wrote that piece, so I'm happy to field any questions.