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✨ Future Distortion Field
Matters of practicality when trying to build the Future while living in the Present.
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💨 Inertia
Or: People hate to change. So don't make them.
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🌟 The 5 lessons that have guided my career
Or: when reflecting on the key choices of my life so far, the five first principles that have emerged.
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Into the fire again, 4 years later.
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🥴 the paradox of my 40s.
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There is no beauty without the broken.
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🃏 When to hold 'em and when to fold 'em.
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🍾Congrats for the trying.
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🌟 The 5 lessons that have guided my career
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🥴 the paradox of my 40s.
or: how did trying to do everything so right lead to feeling like I'm doing nothing right.
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The year I finally made peace with Mom Guilt.
Or: how a bank collapse, a GPT4 launch and spring break had me rethinking the whole damn thing.
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🧗🏽‍♀️How to Persist
Or: how you can find yourself almost a decade into something you never imagined ever wanting to do, let alone actually doing.
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🎲 Change the odds of your activism
Or: Why I think YC is the single biggest odds changer for outsider founders.
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😅 Choose your hard.
Or: why your younger years should be spent on things that earn you the right to work on hard things of your choosing later.
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🃏 When to hold 'em and when to fold 'em.
A year ago, I stared at a choice: pack it in or persist. Why I choose the latter, what I learned, and why it was the right thing, this time.
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😩 You can't will away the work.
Or: how the learning comes from the painful, hard doing, and finding ways to shortcut it misses the whole point.
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10,000 ways
10,000 ways
Tales from the arena. Stories and lessons about building startups in the context of living messy lives. Told by founders, for founders.
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