问题
Should I shut down a company that is profitable but boring?
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I run a small company. It makes money. It has for six years. And I am so bored I could scream. Should I shut it down?
原文
I run a small company. It makes money. It has for six years. And I am so bored I could scream. Should I shut it down?
Before we get to should — what does "bored" mean here? Bored with the product, the customers, the problems, or with yourself in it?
原文
Before we get to should — what does "bored" mean here? Bored with the product, the customers, the problems, or with yourself in it?
With myself in it, I think. The problems are the same problems. I know how every week goes.
原文
With myself in it, I think. The problems are the same problems. I know how every week goes.
That's useful, because it means the company isn't the only variable. Shutting it down would remove the boredom, but so might changing your role in it.
原文
That's useful, because it means the company isn't the only variable. Shutting it down would remove the boredom, but so might changing your role in it.
Everyone says that. "Hire a GM." But nobody wants to run a boring company for someone else.
原文
Everyone says that. "Hire a GM." But nobody wants to run a boring company for someone else.
Some people do — for them "boring" reads as "stable." The question is whether you'd actually let go, or hover.
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Some people do — for them "boring" reads as "stable." The question is whether you'd actually let go, or hover.
Then a GM is a fantasy, and the real choice is: keep hovering and bored, sell, or shut down. Selling seems to be missing from your list — why?
原文
Then a GM is a fantasy, and the real choice is: keep hovering and bored, sell, or shut down. Selling seems to be missing from your list — why?
我停在这里。
当前思考点
...No. That's the problem. It was about proving I could. And I did. Six years ago.
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Boredom might be the company telling you it's finished
That reframing separates two feelings that usually get confused: boredom (nothing new is happening) and completion (the…
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