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If you want to become a travel blogger, building an unrelated business and selling it seems like a roundabout way to "plunge headfirst into your passion."

To me, the author's story represents a much more insidious myth than simply saving money by spending less than you earn.


If you enjoyed this, I recommend the short film, The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal (2001) [1], by Matt McCormick

[1] https://vimeo.com/368367


> You’re missing it! You’re missing all of it! Go home, jump back into the sea, forget it, because this is the ride and you’re missing it.

Petri gets at something much broader: what is the point of tech like Gemini that ostensibly makes some small parts of our lives more efficient when doing so robs them of what makes life worth living in the first place?



"Today, we thank the shipmates who will be departing."

Imagine writing that sentence!


The original sentence ended with "walking the plank"


Exactly. It seems like the conclusion of the post should really be: don't apply layout styles to elements if their parent elements are responsible for layout.


> Plan tech debt into your sprints.

Exactly! Nothing about Scrum or Agile discourages tackling tech debt. Managers and Product Owners encourage features—not sprints.


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