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“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”

-Charles Bukowski

If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.

1. Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a goo

Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” -Jack Kornfield

“If you want to make people like things, work in advertising. If you want to make things people like, work in design.” - Brian Collins

“The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.” ― John Cage