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Adults In Suspended Adolescence

For Silicon Valley's most insecure, life is a perpetual dress rehearsal.

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Katherine Dee
Feb 01, 2021
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In Silicon Valley, everything is a work-in-progress. There’s always code that can be improved upon, features made more user-friendly. You can keep optimizing ad infinitum.

That works great in business.

But what happens when we reflect that mindset back onto ourselves?

If you’re a perpetual work-in-progress, you never have to admit you’ve failed.

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