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Why Recovery is what make growth happens
"We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want." — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Obsessive vs Harmonious Passions
“I play tennis for a living, even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion, and always have.” - Andre Agassi
May 10
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Identity Foreclosure
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning." - Lao Tzu
May 3
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April 2026
The Expert’s Trap
"The irony is that we are more likely to achieve something if we let go of our need to achieve it." - Alan Watts (on Wu Wei)
Apr 19
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Most surprising findings on founder psychology 😲
Since starting this newsletter I’ve been discovering and gathering some of the most surprising, memorable, counterintuitive and powerful insights that…
Apr 5
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March 2026
From Burning Out to Burning Inside
All the highs and lows take a toll.
Mar 29
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The Best Founders Have... Zero Introspection?
The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates
Mar 24
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Human Learning, Machine Learning
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them." - François de La Rochefoucauld
Mar 15
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Seeing Around Corners
"Only the paranoid survive." — Andy Grove
Mar 1
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February 2026
Invisible Asymptotes Limit Your Potential
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." — Arthur Schopenhauer
Feb 22
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The Dark Side of ADHD in Entrepreneurship
The dark side of the Kinko’s story is that the company was built, at least in part, on emotional extremes, most of them my own.” - Paul Orfalea, founder…
Feb 15
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Creation by Deletion
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Terre des…
Feb 8
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