#16. Confessions of a Job Seeker – Nov. 2012
This series is based on a design journal that I kept between 09/12 – 02/13. New? Start here.

Early on in the incubator, my co-founders and I talked through what the worst-case scenario would be if we didn’t raise funding in the amount of time we had allotted. This was an intentional exercise in fear. We were facing a significant amount of risk and navigating a lot of ambiguity. We understood that it would be critical for us to learn how to manage our fears.

The exercise helped us to get concrete about what could actually happen in the worst-case scenario. We agreed that we wouldn’t be exiled or shunned by our friends and family, but if things didn’t go so well we might have to move out of our apartments. I considered this potential scenario, but discarded it as a real possibility. I didn’t think I’d be willing to go there. That would just be taking things too far.