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Things I Know
Nobody actually starts out knowing anything. Everything I “know” today is the residue of a mistake I made, a question I asked too late, or a lesson someone was generous enough to hand me before I had to learn it the hard way myself. Knowledge, at least the useful kind, is rarely born in a classroom – it’s usually forged somewhere messier, in the space between trying something and failing at it a few times first.
I’ve been lucky enough to pick up a few things along the way – some technical, some about people, some just about how to move through the world a little more gracefully. And I’ve realized that knowledge only really becomes valuable once it stops living quietly in your own head and starts being useful to someone else who’s standing exactly where you once stood, a little lost, trying to figure out the next step.
This is where I want to hand some of that over. Not as an expert with all the answers, but as someone slightly further down a path you might be walking too, turning around to point out a few of the rocks I tripped over. Some of it will be practical. Some of it will be philosophical. All of it will be things I genuinely believe, tested against my own experience rather than just theory. If even one thing here saves you a stumble, it’ll have been worth writing down.
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