Forgive me if my reading is off, but it sounds to me like one of your current stumbling points is "inner game".
Reading between the lines a little, you seem to beat yourself up or go within yourself in response to failure. This is a common trait with perfectionists, who often want to feel like they are without flaws before they open themselves to the world.
I'm basing this on this post and the post you linked to about imposter syndrome, although that post appears to be from another user.
If my description seems accurate, I would recommend dealing with anxiety/perfectionism/self-esteem first by learning about it. If you want, throw up an anonymous website that tracks your journey. Self-help is certainly a profitable market. Developer self-help might be an interesting niche.
Without being centered enough to weather failure with grace, you're going to have a hard time being a successful entrepreneur. Once you have it worked out, you'll be a different person with a better sense of who you are and what your strengths are. And then you'll be in a stronger position to build a product that really connects to people.
> I really find it odd that all of a sudden tech employees are resistant to supporting their own government.
Could you expand on this? Because it reads like "help build killing machines even though you signed up for a completely different job, or you don't support your government because you're a political partisan."
The nature paper is not a rebuttal, it just says "hey look we did some studies, didn't they read those studies? We studied lots of things and came to conclusions."
There's no modeling of the Wilson argument that is then proven to be wrong.
I was in a closely related field, and I'm familiar with the work of Cosmides, Tooby, Pinker and a few others. I also knew their students and saw how the sausage is made.
In my experience, Wilson is right. Many of these labs were not doing science. They were doing advocacy, and it showed in the way they designed studies and shelved data.
Not long after I was in school, major labs pushing this approach at Harvard and Yale had major data manipulation scandals.
Independently of this, they also had an animus against statistics that I don't think is befitting of an empirical science.
I haven't read the Wilson, Nowak, and Tarnita paper so I can't comment on it.
But from what I saw of this camp, I would be very skeptical of an appeal to authority.
Reading between the lines a little, you seem to beat yourself up or go within yourself in response to failure. This is a common trait with perfectionists, who often want to feel like they are without flaws before they open themselves to the world.
I'm basing this on this post and the post you linked to about imposter syndrome, although that post appears to be from another user.
If my description seems accurate, I would recommend dealing with anxiety/perfectionism/self-esteem first by learning about it. If you want, throw up an anonymous website that tracks your journey. Self-help is certainly a profitable market. Developer self-help might be an interesting niche.
Without being centered enough to weather failure with grace, you're going to have a hard time being a successful entrepreneur. Once you have it worked out, you'll be a different person with a better sense of who you are and what your strengths are. And then you'll be in a stronger position to build a product that really connects to people.