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My strength and my weakness is that my comfort zone is my discomfort zone.

Average people undervalue what they have and can easily access, and overvalue what they don’t and cannot have. Entrepreneurs figure out ways to minmax based on the cards they are dealt — maximally utilize what they have or can have, and minimize the loss from what they can’t get.

It is a far far harder thing I do, than I have ever done. It is a far far better world I build, than I have ever experienced.

There is no gain without loss. For each new opportunity you undertake, frankly enumerate all that you are willing to and must give up.

To truly stand for something, you must be willing to stand against something.

All good things in life are fleeting; appreciate and enjoy the best parts of your day today.

Do not hide your imperfections and failures, but rather highlight them as in the Japanese art of kintsugi.  Turn your weaknesses into your most attractive features.

One question that I have never been able to confidently answer about myself is whether I have multiple personalities.  Not as in a Dissociative Identity Disorder where the different personalities hold compartmentalized memories, but rather a situation where the same labeled instances dataset is shared between the two halves of my brain with highly distinctContinue reading “The General vs. The Hero”

It is hard to be a leader and always be the first one to stare a tiger in its eyes. But for people like you and I, it is infinitely more scary to walk blindfolded into the jungle behind another.

The paints on the canvas aren’t as bright,And the Scream seems to bear less fright.Memory’s peaks and troughs are fading,Lost in time as mementos pass from sight. Trophies gathering dust collected from yesteryear,I cannot remember why I used to hold them dear.The glory and pride of winning is fading,Like stationary trees receding to the rear.Continue reading “Fading (poem)”