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Strangely, life gets harder when you try to make it easy. Exercising might be hard, but never moving makes life harder. Uncomfortable conversations are hard, but avoiding every conflict is harder. Mastering your craft is hard, but having no skills is harder. Easy has a cost.

19 inconvenient truths I don't want to forget:

We're all here until we make enough to buy a farm and never look at a screen again, right?

1/ Today, I'm humbled to share: @italic is now open for everyone — no membership required ❤️‍🔥 We raised $37M from Canaan & an all-star consortium of 100+ founders 💰 Having grown up in a manufacturing family, I'm proud to follow in my parents' footsteps to serve manufacturers.

Newest isn’t always best. Yet, most of what I consume is from the new. Someone writes a new blogpost, that’s more likely to hit my read-later app than the banger they wrote 6 months ago.

An epic battle between the growth PM, the revenue PM, and legal.

It's wild how literally everything around us is the way it is for a reason ...and just stays that way, unless some strong external force causes it to change (quote from @MikeShatzkin's excellent newsletter) https://t.co/Ali22rYkn4