I don’t know what it’s like to be a great founder. But it seems to me that there is some significant sacrifice required during the achievement of greatness.
No matter how many people claim they can do it all, I have doubts. Sure, Zuck and Bezos are jacked now. And yes, Steve Jobs seemed to have been a pretty good family man in the end. But these great founders were not how they later became during the years in which they rose to greatness.
I’m not certain of what I am saying, that you can’t become a great founder without some significant sacrifice in fundamental dimensions of life such as health, relationships, and perhaps “happiness”. And it’s a dangerous idea if it’s wrong, because it is limiting upon one’s own idea of what is possible. I hesitate to share it for that reason. But what do I write for if it is not to share what I think?
I share this idea because I am as pragmatic as I am optimistic, and this is a question I have considered for a long time.
I think about it because I want to create something great, but I also want to be a great husband and a great father, and I want to live a long time, and I want to enjoy the ride. In other words, I want it all.
And the optimist in me believes all these things are possible, together in parallel, in a single lifetime. But the pragmatist doubts whether that is true. So the optimist presses forward under the assumption that I can do it all while the pragmatist looks for signs of unavoidable sacrifice.
If sacrifice was required, and you knew that up front, at least you could make a conscious choice. More generally, if you could know what your various paths in life would look like, you could choose. But of course, you can’t. That’s not what life’s about, and I wouldn’t want it any other way.
So I move forward, knowing that I do not know, trusting my gut, and doing the best that I can.
The pragmatist started this writing but the optimist finishes. At the end of the day, I still believe it is possible that it is possible to do it all. I have my doubts, but without doubt, there is no place for faith. So thats what I have. Faith.
Should I migrate from /mirror to /paragraph? Feels like the former is just being abandoned bit by bit…
just use a custom domain. costs $20 on paragraph. then you don’t have to worry about loosing seo everytime your underlying tools don’t meet your expectation. it’s gonna happen a lot more because venture backed companies go big or go to the cemetery. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Good point! The URL scheme is different though…
what do you mean? https://writing.artivilla.com is running. Paragraph. I own the domain.
I like paragraph as it is now and also it is actively and noticeably improving, most recently by adding discovery, making blog posts fully readable in mini-app in Warpcast feed, etc. Here’s an example of what that looks like if you haven’t seen it yet: https://paragraph.xyz/@jake/sacrifice,-greatness,-pragmatism,-optimism,-doubt,-and-faith
Appreciate the kind words @jake!
Mirror was acquired by paragraph, normal that one of them will be sacrificed.
Anything you prefer about Mirror more than Paragraph? Also curious to hear if there's anything we can do to help you get set up on Paragraph?
I just found mirror first — first post from 2022 https://w1nt3r.mirror.xyz/ Would love to move to Paragraph if you help with migration: posts, subscribers, redirect links, etc.
Sweet! We just wrapped up some improvements to importing from Mirror to Paragraph, so hopefully that is pretty straightforward and seamless. Once you create a Paragraph account, head to this page: https://paragraph.xyz/settings/publication/import-export Let us know if you run into any issues or if we can help get you set-up.
I just migrated from Medium to Mirror lol. Totally unaware about the relationship to paragraph. Are you guys throttling down Mirror?
We're trying to bring the best of both products into a combined experience and spending all our effort on improving Paragraph. FWIW, it's pretty straightforward to move from Mirror to Paragraph via the import / export function. Once you create a Paragraph account, here's the link to the import / export page: https://paragraph.xyz/settings/publication/import-export
I have wonder the same. Feel like mirror is dying or something as seems there is no effort there to engage with the community. They shut down discord and keep adding features I don't like or need, and the ones I do I can't get, like the basic search of my posts and many others, their indexing is terrible, cant ggl most of my posts at all. Would be great if there was a direct import from mirror to paragraph.