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What we lose when we make convenience king.
Or: keeping the friction that makes up the meaning.
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😎 Ego
Or: taming the beast that makes me good, but not sloppy and arrogant.
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🏃🏽‍♀️Running to stand still.
Or how not to mistake motion for progress.
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Into the fire again, 4 years later.
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There is no beauty without the broken.
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🍾Congrats for the trying.
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✨ Future Distortion Field
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🔥Fire.
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⚡️ Inevitable
Or: years before anyone else sees a runaway success, there is a feeling that foretells its coming.
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🔥Fire.
Or: the feeling of unbridled exhilaration when holding an invention you know will change everything.
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🏆 Best.
Or: building a start-up is a commitment in walking away from ever making the right or best decision.
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🧗🏽‍♀️ The edge of belief.
Or: how far does your faith extend? Until either you're right or the world is.
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💀 Don't die.
Or: the one job that unites all founders.
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✨ Faith or folly
Or: the loneliness of faith, on a path full of fake progress.
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💃🏽 Founder terms
Or: How being a founder for the long term can only be done for your Very Personal Reasons.
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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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