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Anger is not the answer. I. Calibrating to Humanity The first company I ever started was with my partner who’s also a software engineer. We had spoken…
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February 2022

If you slow down, you will get everything you want. I. When I was younger my parents would constantly compare my life to the lives of those around me…
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January 2022

What do you tell yourself when you are down? I. Finished is better than nothing. Expect to be disappointed by the first version of anything you create…
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Happiness is not a journey upward but a journey inward. The answers lie not at the top of a ladder but in the center of the maze. I. After years of…
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What if, all this time, the very walls that you had built to protect yourself were the ones keeping the sunlight out of your life. I. 75 years ago, in…
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November 2021

Small moments of quiet resolve turn into big moments of real change. I. Everyday when I wake up the most pressing emotion I feel is anger. I’m angry…
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History repeats itself, even on small time scales. I. When you’re a kid all your emotions are purely yours. They’re not corrupted by anybody else’s…
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September 2021

A meditation on deception, truth and reality
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August 2021

A free woman doesn’t owe anything to anyone. I. My parents never considered me a part of their family. Even though they were more progressive than many…
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July 2021

At first it felt like dying, and then I was reborn. I. It’s raining outside. I’m sitting on the porch in a house in the mountains watching the raindrops…
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June 2021

Sometimes I think that I’ve been given one little bit of luck in life and that will have to do. Everything else, I’ve had to fight so hard for. I…
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