gnawing

The gnawing is a reminder that you are working, not doing.

Webhooks or no, Dropbox has already nailed down the core features but the Rice situation is gnawing at me.

You don't have a gnawing feeling that maybe you're missing something in this conversation?

When you feel like your body is in a constant state of physical and mental fatigue, bordering on a grinding, gnawing pain?

The way you deal with the gnawing in your chest is to correct your view of success with a healthy dose of reality.

It would still fill me with a gnawing sense of dread though.

But I swear to this day that it was the algorithm gnawing on my brain.

I also have that gnawing feeling from the tick-tock in my mind, and my lack of success, but I'm slowly getting there.

>They are instead rejecting anything that might stir a gnawing insecurity that their own opinion might not be worth all that much.

But if I could flip a switch and make every man feel the persistent, gnawing fear that a woman has of men, I would in a heartbeat.

IF what you're saying is the gnawing pain is awareness of the gap between who we are and who we want to be, then I agree completely.

The gnawing pain that OP feels in his chest– I'm sorry that there's no nice way to put it– is the realization that he's a fraud [1].

The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the “rat race” — the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing.

Theorists would have fun defining "optimality" in this context (to be fair, the philosophers have been gnawing at it for a while..) This is unethical..

"But if I could flip a switch and make every man feel the persistent, gnawing fear that a woman has of men, I would in a heartbeat." If that's intentional parody, it's brilliant.

While there are definitely startup founders who can experience regret of an alternative life, the author completely ignores the opposite situation: the play-it-safe employee who has "friends & family" but has demons of "unfulfilled potential" constantly gnawing at him.