Nobody on their deathbed wished they worked more hours. But nobody built a life they're proud of by doing the bare minimum either. Balance isn't real. Seasons are. Just be honest with the people you love about which one you're in.
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Scott D. Clary
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A pattern in people who seem to have "luck": they put themselves in more rooms. More conversations. More situations where randomness can find them. The "lucky" person applied to 200 things while the "unlucky" person applied to 5 and concluded the world was against them. Luck is surface area. Surface area is effort.
I think about this Dostoevsky quote all the time.
'Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him. And so loses all respect for himself and for others.'
He wrote that in 1880 and it's still the most accurate description of how people destroy their own lives. Not drugs. Not bad luck. Just telling yourself a story long enough that you forget it isn't true.
Sat down with Ali Dasdan (CTO Dropbox) and Nicole Baer (CMO Carta) on stage at Emerge to break down how AI agents are reshaping enterprise from the inside. Engineering, go-to-market, capital strategy. They're seeing it all shift in real time.
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There’s unlimited ROI on being a good person.
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