Wanted to share this because I suspect some of you are doing the same thing I was.
Before I start
I'm a indie hacker. Years of engineering work trained me to be a certain kind of person: someone who can ship a product efficiently, who wants every question reasoned through before touching the keyboard, and who believes you don't get an opinion until you've done the research.
I always thought these were strengths. Then I started building my own product, and I found out they can quietly work against you. On the startup path, they sent me down a long detour and cost me two wasted months.
Later I saw the real root of that detour. It wasn't a technical problem. It was one small thing I kept avoiding: asking a real person to pay me. To dodge that single moment, I was willing to bury myself in two months of product work.
