The Clash kind of lays out the rule to live by

https://music.apple.com/us/album/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go/688793621?i=688796842

This what it’s all about. Where can we make compromises in the pursuit of the goal and what is not compromise worthy

What helps us negotiate, navigate and orchestrate the vision and what depreciates our integrity and ultimately the goal.

Seth Godin wrote a short but highly impactful manifesto the DIP and Derek Sivers Hell Yeah or NO

What I know is that the righteous path is not about the scattered by about the Focused. Deliberateness towards a outcome.

The struggle is always there no matter where your career path finds you. That’s the only thing that is constant and can be counted on. So what we each need to evaluate is that relationship the struggle we are in has towards where we want to go.

Alignment matters.