Increasingly certain of one thing:

"Performative obsession" triggers the terrifying valley effect for true builders.
You think that as long as you're passionate enough,努力 enough, and 996 enough, you can integrate into the circle and gain recognition.

But in the eyes of someone truly obsessed, deliberately imitating diligence is more glaring than laziness.

Because that is not intrinsic motivation, that is a "validated" posture:
To cater to VC aesthetics, not to actually create something.
The most embarrassing thing isn't a lack of effort,
but pretending to love something just for funding.
In the eyes of builders, every performative all-nighter and strategic anxiety is like a clumsy AI trying to pass the Turing test.