Nicolas Cole argues that success doesn't eliminate problems, it just replaces them with different ones. Early struggles with figuring things out become later struggles with boredom in a working system. Better to have a boring but profitable problem than chase constant novelty.
The irony is you always wish you had the problem you don't currently have. The problem you had before is how the hell is this supposed to work? And then now you have something that works and then you're like, oh, I have this problem. It's working, but it's just not novel anymore. And like, this is why it's so hard for every single person because everyone thinks, oh, if I get there, all my problems go away. No, no, no. The problems exist. They just change. They're just new problems. But I promise you would way rather have the problem of this is boring but profitable rather than I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
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