The NY Times has a great longish piece on David Letterman today.
This quote got my attention:
Maybe life is the hard way, I don’t know. When the show was great, it was never as enjoyable as the misery of the show being bad. Is that human nature?
Building companies includes a lot of “misery of the show being bad” as David Letterman puts it.
And I really love the idea that you can enjoy that struggle.
Obviously you want the “show” to be great, but his point is that greatness is fleeting and you have to go through a lot of bad shows to get to some good ones and you’d better figure out how to enjoy that struggle, as he and his team did.
Good advice for all of us who hang out in startup land.
