***Author’s Note*** My target audience for this piece is primarily people who are undergoing a large responsibility shift, like new grads or founders. Thanks to Halle Kaplan-Allen, Tyler Churchill, Sadhika Akula, Drew Henderson, Nasjaq and Mindy Zhang for your help on this piece. ****** One of the best decisions I’ve made this past year was …
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Did you know the antidote to a stingray sting is submerging the sting in boiling water for 40 minutes? I learned that the hard way a couple weeks ago. At my favorite surf beach, there’s a group of 20 folks who hang out, tailgate, and share surfing stories in the parking lot. As I started …
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Think of angel investing like enriching your community. It’s symbiotic – you help empower someone you admire and trust to do what they love. In return, you get a close-up look at how they run their business, the social capital of being an investor in them, and a small chance of outsize returns. As on …
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Sweat rolling down my face, I turned off the AC in a tiny rental car in a Starbucks parking lot in Mexico. A strawberry sarong serving as my background, I began to speak about Engineering Developer Joy for our WorkOS Customer Event. As I rerecorded the talk I had recorded last night in a quiet …
I could have ignored a mistake in the printing of Seed to Harvest and silently replaced the messed up print.
Instead, I embraced the imperfection and reframed the experience. I wrote about it because tough times often make for great stories. There will be hiccups and missteps and obstacles along the way — but I know embracing imperfection and these bumps along the road with a positive mindset and a sense of humor will better equip me for times when the going gets tough.
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i share this in hopes of it resonating with others on this journey, and especially if you’re in a low now – to remind you to reflect on how far you’ve come. self-directed work often feels like you have a compass but no map. you walk towards peaks of inspiration, wander in valleys of confusion, …
Tonight I’m writing about a topic that is dear to my heart – how to have a quality conversation in an introductory call. Coincidentally, it’s a question I’ve received five times recently – which is usually my proxy for sitting down to write a longer piece on it. We often discuss the technical skills that …
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I was first introduced to the formidable Joan Didion in my junior year of high school in AP English. My teacher was a character, but more importantly she insisted we write a one page essay everyday on rhetoric pieces. One of the pieces we were assigned to analyze was Joan Didion’s landmark “On Keeping A …
what I covered in my cold outreach workshop on Zoom this past Monday for San Diego State’s Finance & Investment Society
I felt really lost for a long time – as I’m sure many of you have. I went about the daily routine of my life, and stumbled into the line of questioning, “Is this is it? We work our whole lives to save up money for retirement, to enjoy the last years of our life …