Building a product and therefore myself

my condensed bio: Late 90’s startup reject. Worked 9-5 ~ kept getting laid off. Began coding to save myself; then domain name investing. Some domains inspired me to build. Building uncovered my inner-nature. Now in Ranching, Ag, Adventure Travel; also share expiry domain overflow" – @searchbound

“Building uncovered my inner-nature.” - LOVE that. That spoke to me.

Indie hacking software products and building multiple businesses had always been about self growth and learning. No other career I had thus far had been this exacting and comprehensive in uncovering my inner nature.

Hated coding. But overcame wrong perception that I hate maths and being meticulous. Now I love it.

Hated marketing. But learned that marketing was wrongly portrayed by unethical businesses. Now I learned how to market ethically, in a wholesome way, by helping others.

Hated money. But learned that money isn’t evil. It’s just a means, a tool, towards an end. It’s the ends I observed the rich do with money that I disagree with. I can use money to build a better life for my family, change the little bubble of my world.

All those lessons and insights wouldn’t have come about if I didn’t start indie hacking and entrepreneurship, if I didn’t start building.

That’s the true nature of tools and things we create. We shape them, then it shapes us back. It’s a never-ending flywheel of creation, deconstruction, re-creation.

Building outwardly really is deconstructing inwardly.