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  • Burnout and Basketball Dynasties

    An exploration of burnout, personal growth, and how lessons from the Golden State Warriors dynasty relate to long-term goals in life.
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  • An Archipelago of Ideas

    What if you thought of your writing, coding or building process as discovering first one idea island, then another, then another, until you can see the archipelago of ideas, and only worry later about building bridges to connect them?
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  • A reflection on resilience

    I realized this week that I’ve misunderstood what resilience meant my entire life.
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  • It's important to do things for the right reasons

    Similar to running, others may not be able to tell the difference between founders doing it for the wrong reasons vs. the right reasons. But it'll matter during the lowest valleys. I think those that are doing it for the right reasons will tend to make it through the dip more often.
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  • How to build your startup in 5 lines of code

    How to build your startup in 5 lines of code (in python of course)
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  • Why You Shouldn't Use Depth-First Searches

    Depth-first searches applied in real life
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  • Thoughts on Naval's Quote: 'Life is a single player game'

    "Life is a single player game. You're born alone. You're going to die alone. All of your interpretations are alone. All your memories are alone. You're gone in three generations and no one cares. Before you showed up nobody cared. It's all single player." - Naval
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  • Boston Marathon 2018 Race Report Part 2: What it was like to run in 38-degree rain and 25 mph headwinds

    I was fortunate enough to run in the 2018 Boston Marathon. Between it being my first time running Boston and the rare mix of 38-degree freezing rain, and strong headwinds, it's a race that I'll never forget. I hope this race report helps someone running Boston or another bad-weather marathon in the future.
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  • Boston Marathon 2018 Race Report Part 1: My journey to Boston

    Dreaming of qualifying for the Boston Marathon? I first heard the phrase "Boston qualify" on the night before I ran my first marathon a little less than five years ago. Here's how Boston went from being a faraway dream to a goal for me.
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  • 17 thoughts on running, startups, and life while running 2017 miles in 2017

    Once you do something that much, people usually like to say “X is your life”. That’s partially true— it takes up a lot of your life, but more importantly, you start to see lots of analogies for life in it. Running has given me both more meaning in life as well as more time to reflect upon it. Here are 17 ruminations from those runs.
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