Will → The Way

We live in an age where anyone with access to the internet has the capability to learn just about anything at unprecedented speeds. Most information is literally just a query and a few clicks away. The old adage “where there’s a will, there’s a way” is more true at present than ever before.
Just ask the interwebs and you stand to instantly receive what you are looking for. Even if you can’t manage to find what you seek there are various outlets and forums where you can pose questions and get qualified answers to them in less time than you could go to the library, find potential physical tomes that may contain your answer, search cette tomes to potentially find your answers, and then attempt make sense of them.
Seriously, there are courses from the experts amongst experts available for free or for next to nothing. Benevolent sages openly share the product of compounded knowledge gained through experience in articles, forums, videos, and other formats easily accessed online.
Furthermore, we have the added perk of living in a world that is growing ever more interconnected to the extent that you can not only find expert wisdom more easily than ever before, but you can even directly reach out to those experts via a number of mediums.
Really, take a moment to pause and reflect on these facts. You live in the age of empowerment. There is nothing preventing you from equipping yourself to be capable of undertaking ventures that would have been deemed impossible or at least impractical only a mere decade or two ago.
The interwebs are literally bursting at the seams with wisdom you can parse and adapt into your specific context. Things are changing at such unprecedented paces to the extent that it is almost a level playing field in a number of nascent markets. That being said there’s always going to be things that are unknown in the context of your business. You just have to do the work in finding answers to that which you know you don’t know in order to build a foundation of pertinent knowledge.
Given this fact, there is a fine line between hubris and confidence. I caution you to take a socratic approach and remember you are much like John Snow in the fact that you know nothing. So it behooves you to maintain an unquenchable thirst as times [and contexts] are always changing…but even given this fact you can easily keep a finger on the pulse.
In hard tech especially, there will also be things that will remain unknown until you take action (which might even reveal previously unknown unknowns). In these instances it’s on you, the entrepreneur, to do more faster by cleverly engineering experiments that enable you to cast light on the unknowns in your specific context.
There is an obvious cautionary corollary to this post along the lines of the The Death of Expertise, but if you take the path of life-long learning and maintain a healthy thirst for [empirical] knowledge you can accelerate your path to being better than most in a hurry (with the added benefit of finding potential mentors, advisors, or hires along the way).
