I was always hallucinogenically optimistic. That’s the only reason I kept going. Not because I could take this suckiness for a long time, but that it’s going to be better tomorrow. I had all these big ideas, and I could never stop thinking about the product and the thing I was going to build next. That always being around the corner in my mind is basically what allowed me to go through all the bad stuff.
Evan Williams on why he kept going during his long struggle of trying to make something out of Blogger.
He eventually sold Blogger to Google and later quit to start Twitter.


