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Blair Beckwith's avatar

Sanjay – long time reader, first time commenter. My apologies for the late comment, I follow aling via RSS and went a while without checking my reader.

I suspect I am perhaps a bit odd among your followers – I am not particularly interested in engineering or hockey or the intersection of those two. I think what has captured me over the years is the dedication to exploration and craft and perseverance.

I am am amateur distance runner and one of the thoughts I live by is that "the marathon owes you nothing". You can totally nail a training cycle – execute every workout to perfection, have perfectly dialled nutrition, keep your body and mind healthy, and then by humbled by the distance through weather, sickness, or fate. It sounds like innovation also owes us nothing, but that is no reason to not pursue it relentlessly. When I fail I tell myself that it's not the destination but the journey, that I race to train not train to race, and what not. Lies I tell myself to make myself feel better. But I hope you can see the truth in those statements even when I don't.

Thank you for sharing over the years, the journey, the laughs, the Leguin quote (going in my notes). I am eager to see what bad ideas you pursue next.

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It’s Joe!'s avatar

This is my very favorite newsletter- thank you so much for including us in your process!

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