Comment by hinkley

Naïveté is when someone assumes good outcomes from bad situations.

What I'm exhibiting is probably more correctly described as cynicism. I've worked for a few startups that were sure they were hearing 'yes' from VCs and we ended up running out of money thinking a check would come any day now.

There's an old saying, "I'll believe it when I see it." Cynics and startup employees expanded this to, "I'll believe it when the check clears."

And then there's me over here, who knows you can claw back a check that has 'cleared' for about 30 days, saying "I'll believe it a month after the check clears."