Archive - 10,000 ways

📈 maximize slope

Or: when faced with big fork-in-road life decisions, how to decide which to take

Apr 30 •

Avni Patel Thompson

January 2025

🌲 don't hesitate.

Or: how I had to slow my frequency to hear the poetry.

Jan 28 •

Avni Patel Thompson

🤓 what founders fail at most

Or: how picking and shipping beats correct and complete, every time.

Jan 23 •

Avni Patel Thompson

December 2024

✨ some hard truths about start-ups.

Or: things I've learned the hard way over the past 10 years.

Dec 7, 2024 •

Avni Patel Thompson

November 2024

🔨 engineering destiny

or: the art of feeling your way to what needs to be built

Nov 15, 2024 •

Avni Patel Thompson

September 2024

🥺 What bravery is.

Or: how you can endure your heart breaking even as you feel it growing.

Sep 4, 2024 •

Avni Patel Thompson

August 2024

🤪 Here's to the messy, the chaotic, the imperfect.

Or: how I need a space to ask the questions - especially the ones without the answers.

Aug 11, 2024 •

Avni Patel Thompson

💃🏽 To dance or not to dance.

Or: lessons in making space for the things that Really Matter.

Aug 2, 2024 •

Avni Patel Thompson

May 2024

👇🏽Back to a here.

Or finding magic can be tied to a place.

May 1, 2024 •

Avni Patel Thompson

March 2024

Or: People hate to change. So don't make them.

Mar 6, 2024 •

Avni Patel Thompson

February 2024

🌟 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.

Feb 15, 2024 •

Avni Patel Thompson

January 2024

🥴 the paradox of my 40s.

or: how did trying to do everything so right lead to feeling like I'm doing nothing right.

Jan 25, 2024 •

Avni Patel Thompson

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