the thing is, it is better sometimes when you do not know everything. as you grow older, you start overestimating yourself, thinking you understand how things work. but when i first started writing about startups in pakistan, i knew nothing.
i was just delusional. i thought everything would somehow take its own shape, its own form, that there was light at the end of the tunnel, that things would work out. and to be honest, some part of me is still like that. maybe because i still do not know everything, and maybe that is a good thing.
my first real experiment was not the blog or the community around it. it was a bunch of random things before that. selling gaming assets. trying to build a blue collar service that never really took off. a men’s jewellery store. a clothing store. even some investment banking type setup, which is ridiculous when you think about it because who the hell is 17 and thinks he is starting investment banking.
most of it went nowhere. the only thing that really worked, at least a little, was the gaming assets thing. i saved some money from it and then managed to lose most of it in the pakistani stock market because, again, i did not know what i was doing.
but looking back, most of those experiments came from the same place. not knowing everything. not fully understanding the risk, the difficulty, the odds, or how badly things could go. and maybe that is what made me start in the first place. because if i had known everything, i probably would have done nothing.
