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A dance with serendipity
How Nicole Ruiz’s path from Twitter to VC to homemaker exemplifies “the life of the mind”
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Exciting update: out with book workshops (for now), in with customized 1:1 call
Dear paid subscribers:
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“There’s hidden treasure all over the world”
The uncompromised ambition of Jesse Genet, serial founder and full-time mom
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December 2024

The courage to be “ordinary”
A conversation with Anne Briard, the insurance lawyer who is living her best life
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Discussion thread #2: Your best examples of the "leaden mean"?
Hello, dear readers!
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Join me for the final Builder's Mindset Book Workshop of 2024
Update your "life vision blueprint" with me in this special end-of-year holiday session!
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Fantastic Builders and Where to Find Them, 5th Installment
A nugget of wisdom from my walk with Sahil Lavingia
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Fantastic Builders and Where to Find Them: Running Catalog
A series of biographical vignettes spotlighting the "builder's mindset" in action
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Dr. Gena Gorlin

November 2024

Thanks be to the human
This is a Thursday note edition of our Friday Note. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. The English language has a word for someone who, as a general trait…
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Fantastic Builders and Where to Find Them, 4th Installment
The story of Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto—and why it's dedicated to his therapist
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Fantastic Builders and Where to Find Them, 3rd installment
“Every day I touched 50 faces” (Estée Lauder)
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October 2024

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