Erik Hanburg talk

Listening to Erik's talk was very informative. It's clear that he has 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur from the way he talks about it. The thing that he talked about that stuck to me the most was practicing shipping. He mentioned the book he wrote in 8th grade, emphasizing that doing something like this gives you a more holistic view of what it means to take on a large project. He also showed how authoring some books paid off for him in the long term, giving him a bit of security. I know that if I want to achieve my life goals, I'm going to have to practice shipping with my own work. I need to create games to become a game designer and I need to write more D&D content if I want to become a games writer. If I was able to, like Erik said, break time for money eventually by generating income with these projects, it would be great. I'm not focused on that though, just knowing what it is like to take a coding or writing project to completion would give me more insight on future projects. I liked Erik's story about the theater he started. It showed that just knowing how to run a business isn't always enough and how living the life of an entrepreneur is unpredictable. It must be heartbreaking to put so much work into a theater and only be able to run 6 shows.  I enjoyed listening to Erik, and I thought that his presentation was full of useful information.