One of the non-obvious challenges with doing a startup is that the majority of your work is spent slogging through boring, non-complicated tasks.

You’re simultaneously doing some of the hardest work of your life but also watching some of your skills atrophy simply because you’re spread so thing across so many different problems.

Startup founders tend to make good product managers or cross-discipline engineering managers for this reason, but it can take some time to slide back into the groove of deep technical work in specific domains.