I'm in Jordan right now, not in direct danger but i do see the missiles from my window as i am typing this WHAT A VIEW. I hear sirens. And I'm in the middle of building a zero knowledge architecture for an AI operating system for founders. Agentic work. Rebuilt Word, Excel, Forms, Calendar to be ai native blah blah blah... Do you see how ridiculous this sounds when F22s are over my head? i have to reflect because is this how i want to die? what will i say to god? I was one step away from PMF, god please put me back?
I am a highschool dropout, my co founder works oil rigs to fund both of us and works between shifts as the business guy, we have it hard.
I don't know. But I can't stop. So I just keep building.
I just wanted to give my voice to the first world, to the Valley specifically.
The world is much bigger than whether Anthropic declines a deal with the DoD. Bigger than whether you raise your seed round. Bigger than whether you fail or get into YC.
If you're not willing to die building what you're building, move on. Take a better hobby. Go into finance or law.
Because some of us are building from places where that question isn't hypothetical.