feature, not a bug.

A few weeks ago, I woke up and apologized to my mom.

She looked confused.

I had no clue why either.

I just felt like I’d done something wrong. Like I’d said something harsh the night before. It was so vivid in my head, this memory of a fight we’d had.

Except… it never happened.

It was a dream.
One of those bizarre, hyper-real ones.
But for the first 30 minutes of the morning, I was fully convinced it was real life.

An hour later, it hit me:
That "fight" was just my brain doing its weird little dance at night.

[there is actually a term for this: dream-reality confusion (DRC)]

But here's the thing...

That intense overthinking, that ability to replay situations in my head, to overanalyze every interaction?

For years, I thought of it as a bug in my system.

Too sensitive. Too anxious. Too stuck in my head.

Until I realized,
That same "bug" is what makes me a killer builder.

A better writer.
A better thinker.
A better founder.

That overanalysis? It’s why my newsletters go deep.
It’s why my systems are sharp.
It’s why I catch nuances that others miss.

It’s basically the reason why I’m able to do what I do.

We’re too quick to label discomfort as a flaw.

But what if it’s actually part of the design?

Alex Hormozi says this line a lot:
“It’s a feature, not a bug.”

And ever since I heard him say it, it’s stuck.

Because it’s not just about software.

It’s about life.

Business. Fitness. Self-worth. Relationships.

Everything.

Some real examples from my life:

• Doing everything solo in my agency
  Sales, delivery, client calls, content, operations. It gets messy.
  → But it’s also why I have clarity on how the whole machine works.
  → It’s why I can build lean, scalable systems when the time comes.
  → It’s a feature, not a bug.

• Overthinking dreams and random thoughts
  Like I said in the beginning. Sometimes feels like a mental trap.
  → But it’s also what makes me deeply self-aware.
  → It’s why I write newsletters like this in the first place.
  → It’s a feature, not a bug.

Can’t relate?

What about you?

Here are a few you might be going through:

• You keep bouncing between career paths—marketing today, UX tomorrow, thinking of freelancing next week.
  
  You’re worried you’re “not consistent enough.”
  
  But maybe that’s not a bug. Maybe you’re just in explore mode.
  Building range. Testing your edges.

• You see your friends getting jobs, moving abroad, or earning in dollars, and you feel like you’re behind.
  
  But you’re not behind. You’re just asking harder questions.
  You’re not settling for a path that doesn’t feel like yours. That takes guts.

• You feel stuck in your current job or degree and can’t figure out what’s next.
  
  That discomfort might feel like failure. But it’s actually feedback.
  It’s your inner compass telling you, “this isn’t it. Keep going.”

Here's the reframe:

Whatever you think is holding you back right now…

That confusion about your career.
That job you’re not excited to wake up to.
That side hustle that isn’t growing as fast as you hoped.
That pressure to figure it all out while pretending like you have.
That inner voice whispering, “What if I’m wasting time?”

There’s a good chance it’s not a flaw.

It’s the resistance that shapes you.
It’s the constraint that sharpens your edge.
It’s the suck that filters out the people who quit early.

Because…what if it’s not a mistake?

What if this phase — this messy, unclear, uncomfortable in-between…
...is exactly what’s meant to shape you?

It’s a feature.
Not a bug.

Try this.

Next time something feels like a flaw, pause.

And ask:

If it’s hard, maybe it’s meant to be hard.
If it’s slow, maybe it’s meant to be slow.
If it’s boring, maybe that’s what success looks like.

Let that idea simmer.

Because the day you start seeing your bugs as features…
...is the day you stop trying to change the game,
and start winning it.

Because the truth is, the very thing you’re trying to escape...
might be the thing that’s quietly building you.

Keep going. You’re not broken.
You’re just becoming.

Every "bug" you’ve survived so far has turned into a feature.

You’re not off-track.
You’re just early in the build.

And every great system has bugs before it ships. 😉

Godspeed, and God bless. 🦚