college:
the designer for a side project i was working on shares some assets with another student building something completely different. i get upset and demand that the other person not use it.
neither project goes anywhere.
princetonfml goes down and a friend of mine and i compete to create a replacement. the people he's working with invite me to have lunch at the dining hall and it's tense. they want to collaborate but i'm not interested because i'm going to beat them.
yikyak shows up and both projects die.
i want to try spinning off a class project into a startup and work full-time on it. one of the group members is interested in continuing to collaborate but since i'm going to be working on it full time, he's not, and i wrote most of the code anyway, i cut off his access to the code base. i lose a friend.
i burn out and stop working on the idea a few months later.
today:
life is so much more fun when you realize it's not a competition
shoutout to psychedelics + meditation + life for showing me that
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by DK the Human (@dk_the_human)
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