shackles of comfort

You know, here in Silicon Valley, we have this mantra – many companies do – of failing fast, failing quickly and all of that. And that’s fine as an intellectual orientation. But many of us, when we’re confronted with personal failure, even with things that are not high stakes, it feels bad to us. And we work hard to try to avoid that failure, and

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Get familiar with the unknown. The feeling of exploring a coffee shop you’ve never been to, the initial awkwardness of talking to a stranger, the unease of eating alone at a restaurant, the effort of dragging yourself off the couch to go dancing with your friends, the indulgence of letting yourself sleep until 11. There’s more to life than constant

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