 Does your CS/math education hurt your entrepreneurial endeavors?
10ren: I see this as the technical/business disconnect.I've definitely had it at times, when I value perfection in itself. Working with (discrete maths/CS) proofs has exacerbated this. If one aspect isn't quite right, it's a horrible catastrophe, and destroys the whole. This non-pragmatic approach also causes problems in just getting things done.Behind it is a fundamental question of values, of whether you're working to serve people (an entrepreneur's job), or working to serve truth (a scientist's or artist's job). That's up to you.One way to combine these perspectives is in terms of a "Hero's Journey": you encounter a problem of ordinary folk (Quest); you journey into a strange special world of deeper power to obtain the solution (Elixir), and then return to the ordinary world to solve it  (you can't solve a problem at the same level you encountered it.) It seems that this so-called "monomyth" is so universally resonate because it reflects a common experience of human beings.