Nothing feels real until you are forced to start making hard decisions.

, I totally get why they are not going to have a special program just for me and my cyborg friends.

People know the garbage needs to be taken out. You can’t realistically avoid it. It is a job to be done and most of us just do it. But if a product magically appeared to make that job go away everyone would buy it.

“When a company starts to lose its major battles, truth is usually the first casualty”.

Ben Horowitz - the hard thing about hard things

Pain is a natural consequence of being alive and having ambition. Pain is the universe doing you a favour

Knowing what is real is more important than winning, because there is no sustainable victory without it.

As a leader, you grind because there is something new blocking you and it’s hard to understand. You grind because the decision in front of you has new risks that need to be characterized. You grind because nothing can be certain and you are not a robot, so you have to spend time with hard things to get your head around them