I want to spend my time on hard problems that are worth solving — the kind that stay ugly for a long time and matter if they ever yield. Agent memory that lasts. Products that hold up when a stranger uses them. Less theater, more systems that survive contact. That work does not happen in a clever week. It takes grit: showing up, shipping the next honest version, and not decorating a toy.
Big important problems don't care that you understood them. They care that you stayed long enough to solve them. That's the bet I'm making with my years: pick the hard thing, tackle it, and keep going until it is actually solved.