At a product meetup, I had a chance to interact with Yega Kumarappan. One thing he said has stuck with me since.
Your success is less about how you build and more about how deeply you commit to the problem you’re trying to solve.
Everything else has gotten cheap. Tools are abundant, knowledge is on YouTube, capital and networks are a few warm intros away. Capability is no longer the bottleneck.
What’s scarce is conviction
Conviction
That the problem matters.
That it’s worth your time, frustration, and repeated failure.
That you’ll stay with the problem even when the novelty wears off.
When everything else is abundant, commitment becomes the true differentiator. The breaking point isn’t whether you can build something. It’s whether you’re willing to stay loyal to the problem long enough to actually solve it.