Coaching practices for As a Software Developer How Do I Know If I Should Quit My Job and Build My Own Startup

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• I either cling to something long after it’s clearly not working because quitting feels like giving up, or I bail the first day my motivation dips
• I’m about to pour a year into learning something, and I keep second-guessing whether I’m betting everything on one narrow outcome or building something that would still pay off no matter which way the future breaks.
• My whole job search is just refreshing job boards and firing off applications into the void, competing with hundreds of strangers for whatever happens to be posted
• I’ve got this fresh idea I’m genuinely excited about, and that excitement is making me go easy on it
• There’s this other life I daydream about constantly, but it stays a fantasy in my head

Practices that may help

1. Pre-set your exit criteria
   Decide in advance what result would make you stop, continue, or scale up.
   Tiny Experiments: Testing Change Without Committing to It
2. Platform thinking: build capabilities that enable many futures rather than optimizing for one
   Invest in skills, tools, and relationships that expand your adjacent possible in multiple directions rather than optimizing for a single outcome.
   The Adjacent Possible, Made Practical
3. Build and work a target list of roles and organisations
   Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
   Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network
4. Rebuild from fundamentals and stress-test it
   Reassemble a solution from verified parts, then attack it to find where it breaks.
   First-Principles Thinking, Made Usable
5. Prototype with conversations and experiences
   Test a possible path cheaply — talk to someone living it, or try a small slice — before betting on it.
   Designing Your Life, Made Practical
6. Reason up from the parts, not by analogy
   Build the solution from the fundamentals you kept, rather than copying an existing template.
   First-Principles Thinking, Made Usable
7. Prototype to think, not to finish
   Build or sketch something rough specifically to learn what you actually want.
   Quantity Over Quality: How More Drafts Produce Better Work
8. Protect the shutdown time from late-day urgency
   The moment you are most tempted to skip the shutdown is the moment you most need it.
   The Shutdown Ritual, Made Practical
9. Invest effort before expecting the passion to arrive
   Passion follows competence — start before you feel ready, because the feeling comes after.
   Passion vs Interest: How to Actually Find Work You Love
10. Sample widely before committing to a niche
    Premature specialization forecloses interests you haven’t discovered yet.
    Passion vs Interest: How to Actually Find Work You Love

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