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Read the news for ten minutes and you will feel it. That small flash of contempt for whoever signed off on the obvious mistake. A bridge collapses. A policy meant to feed a region starves it. An invasion promised to take six weeks limps into its third year. The implication of our headshake, never quite…
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I was well into my twenties before I understood that anyone held an opinion about my worth. Where I grew up, this had never come up. A child in those towns is many things to many people, a son, a nuisance, a future, a mouth, but the one thing he is never asked to do…
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Somewhere in the early 2000s, a software engineer at a small avatar-chat startup watched six months of work evaporate. His team had built an elaborate system for importing contacts from other messaging networks – the whole product hinged on the assumption that people would want to chat with their existing friends using 3D avatars. They’d…
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Nobody tells you, when you start a company, that the job is to become a stranger to yourself – not once, but five or six times over, on a schedule that has nothing to do with your readiness and everything to do with the organism you’ve built. The startup doesn’t care that you were good…
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