Nathan Payne warns against chasing viral trends like TikTok or AI apps. Real growth comes from sticking with your own projects, even imperfect ones, because that's how you discover what you actually enjoy building.
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case, I feel like it worked. Yeah, it didn't shut down, so you're doing something. Yeah, you had— you just want to pursue and get it, you know, however imperfect it might have been. Oh yeah, in the end, very perfect. You know, 22, 23 doing this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think people get too wrapped up in headline stories, especially now with like AI apps. There's people who are like 20 on TikTok trends, they make a mobile app, TikTok trend, they know how to blow it up quickly and you're like, that's cool. They have, you know, reversed engineered that. But it takes you a while to figure out what you really enjoy.