⚡️ Inevitable
Or: years before anyone else sees a runaway success, there is a feeling that foretells its coming.
There is a feeling that has been building inside of me for weeks. Months. It brought alive parts of me that have lay dormant since Poppy.
This feeling started as a glimmer. Barely as spark. A kernel fuelled by users wrapping the visions I saw in my mind.
But slowly as I kept going and users kept using, it started to grow beside me. Each new data point not snuffing the spark out, but building it up. Each new puzzle piece not breaking the picture, but falling neatly into place.
But I've been to this rodeo before. Seen this movie. It didn’t last. So I didn’t get hopeful. Attached.
I knew, though, that my job was not to judge or be discouraged. But to keep going.
So I slapped a new screensaver on my phone and reminded myself to just get going.
Each day, I would figure out what I needed to do to keep that little feeling growing. Each day I knocked out the thing that threatened it the most.
This feeling, it's been flickering and simmering for a long time. Some could say 8 years. But the past 4 months it’s started to balloon and grow until today it hit me:
Inevitable.
That’s what’s inside me. What I'm doing. What I'm building up to. It has always been so we could look back and say It was inevitable.
This is inevitable. I am inevitable.
There is still so much work to be done but now I don’t question if. I wonder how.
And I realize now, for all those companies that have come before that we all look on now and say - wow, how obvious - they all passed through this valley and climbed this mountain to look across from the peak and say, yes, what I’m building WILL be inevitable. I am the force of nature to will it to be so.
It’s the furthest thing from an overnight success. It’s a slow, gruelling momentum that grows within until others take on the mantle and start growing it from without.
So that weeks and months before that moment of breakaway success comes this deeper, quieter force: the feeling of inevitability.
I get now that that’s what they all mean when they say: keep going, you’ll get there. “There” isn’t the flashy frantic moment of instant PMF like in the lore of the few. For most of us it’s this slow build. This steady climb.
Conviction, even for founders is a layered, multi-stage journey. Power and belief flow from it.
There are no sure bets - in life and certainly not in startups. But the next best thing?
Be inevitable.
Awesome screensaver for such an important message.
Really needed to hear that. Words of wisdom🙏🏽