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Startup Operator, Immigrant, Calisthenyst & aspiring Producer

New York
Joined March 2019
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“Be convinced that to be happy means to be free & that to be free means to be Brave." ~Thucydides
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work heals. idleness is hell.
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It's a skill to let yourself easily forget the bad.
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read this twice:
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There are many forms of privileges. The true privilege is the stacking of multiple privileges.
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It's better to be sleep deprived but not stressed than the other way around. Stress is way more costly than discomfort.
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The life cycle of a cherry.
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Napoleon was spot on:
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All paintings at the Met have an ornate golden frame. The Art is great, but so is "the packaging". If you're a great performer, you want to be at Carnegie Hall not a provincial stage. True greatness lies in skillfulness alongside commanding the stage that spotlights it.
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"Patients recovering from surgery in rooms that looked out on trees went home sooner and needed fewer strong painkillers than those whose window faced a brick wall." socialinnovationlabs.substac…
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Nikola Tesla on solitude ✍️
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— C.S.Lewis
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One of Freud’s letters to Jung:
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the colors aren't competing they're collaborating
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Doing things that don't scale hurts terribly. The moment you start enjoying one of them, you need to move to the new one that is not enjoyable at all.
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Prioritization is supposed to hurt
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One fully committed is in no need of encouragement.
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