Embracing the change and uncertainty

I had a pretty good weekend of rest after a long week of work. It’s been gorgeous here in San Francisco and the forecast has a great weekend in the 80s upcoming. The flooding in New York has me rethinking a possible move there. We’ll see how I feel in the coming weeks.

One of the hardest parts about adjusting to startup life 5 years ago was the unpredictable nature of things. One day you can be the luckiest person and have a huge win at work. The next day the luck can turn and you are faced with a gigantic L which is exactly what has happened to me the last week.

Late last weekend, I had a few things go my way and I was on the verge of some big wins. Things were coming together and we were set-up for a monster October. And by today (Monday), more than half those things that we were working on had fallen through completely for various reasons.

I’ve come to learn over the years that this is just the nature of working at at startup, especially a fintech. It sucks, but you can take one on the chin even when you do everything right. It’s never fun when things go the other way for you, but it’s something we’ve come to learn to embrace.