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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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Into the fire again, 4 years later.
Reflections on the eve of doing Y Combinator, the second time around.
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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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There is no beauty without the broken.
We're doomed to keep glossing over mental health until we start acknowledging this.
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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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🍾Congrats for the trying.
I wish we celebrated the entering of and staying in the arena, more than any outcome.
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✨ some hard truths about start-ups.
Or: things I've learned the hard way over the past 10 years.
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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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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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🤪 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.
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🔥Fire.
Or: the feeling of unbridled exhilaration when holding an invention you know will change everything.
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💃🏽 To dance or not to dance.
Or: lessons in making space for the things that Really Matter.
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