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12 May, 2012
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12 May
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A Request (and Giveaway!) for My Twenty-Sixth Birthday →

Photo credit by Solo [http://www.flickr.com/photos/60648084@N00/2234406328/] People fall into two camps about birthdays – either
12 May, 2012
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12 May
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A Request (and Giveaway!) for My Twenty-Sixth Birthday →

Photo credit by Solo [http://www.flickr.com/photos/60648084@N00/2234406328/] People fall into two camps about birthdays – either
08 May, 2012
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Eleven Compelling Startup Pitch Archetypes
08 May
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Eleven Compelling Startup Pitch Archetypes →

Over the past few weeks, I’ve helped a handful of startups work on their YC applications and interviews. I
05 Apr, 2012
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Gymnastics Lessons: Performing Under Pressure
05 Apr
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Gymnastics Lessons: Performing Under Pressure →

Gymnastics is a sport about delivering under pressure. Even though you can make it a team sport by aggregating scores
18 Jan, 2012
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18 Jan
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How to be Relentlessly Resourceful →

Relentlessly resourceful. This is the essential quality of a good startup founder according to Paul Graham, cofounder of Y Combinator.
21 Dec, 2011
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Great By Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite it All
21 Dec
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Great By Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite it All →

Summary: Great by Choice describes the results of a deep investigation into how young companies can survive and thrive in
30 Sep, 2011
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How to Give Your Product Personality
30 Sep
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How to Give Your Product Personality →

There’s a really great post on Fred Wilson’s blog (AVC [https://web.archive.org/web/20160320050249/http://avc.
28 Jun, 2011
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Getting Your Groove Back
28 Jun
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Getting Your Groove Back →

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07 Jun, 2011
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Taking Cold Showers
07 Jun
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Taking Cold Showers →

This post is about why you might want to start taking cold showers. I’ve been doing it for over
29 Mar, 2011
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Chinese gymnast completing straddle somersault on floor exercise
29 Mar
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What Gymnastics Taught Me About Facing Fear →

Most competitive gymnasts would consider pain and fear our twin companions. I certainly did. Gymnastics requires that athletes constantly challenge
15 Mar, 2011
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What Gymnastics Taught Me About Acquiring and Mastering Skills
15 Mar
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What Gymnastics Taught Me About Acquiring and Mastering Skills →

In 1996, Men’s Health published an article [https://web.archive.org/web/20161016033530/http://www.stickitmedia.com/mens-gymnastics-
19 Jan, 2011
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How I Blew Out My Knee and Came Back to Win a National Championship
19 Jan
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How I Blew Out My Knee and Came Back to Win a National Championship →

On January 19th, 2007, while competing for Stanford Men’s Gymnastics at the UC Berkeley, I suffered a total knee
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