Hey Boundless readers! I’m off on paternity leave for March and am handing over the reins to some trusted friends. Today’s guest issue is hosted by Kris Abdelmessih who has been writing the amazing newsletter Moontower for a couple of years and manages to shift smoothly between philosophical musings on the good life and parenting and in-depth breakdowns into quantitative finance, probability theory, and math. If you like getting nerdy (but not too much) you should give him a follow.
Loved the perspective on doing to find out what you want instead of overthinking it.
My advice these days to people who want to make the jump: have enough runway to experiment a lot and iterate. Contact with the real world will determine the rest 😀
“Opening yourself up to this emergence. It’s about growing up and letting go. It’s about realizing that if I claim to care about something, I need to be willing to act, and also be willing to be wrong. I must let go of my ego and my need to be seen as a “successful” person.”
I really like how you said you swapped solving for existential problem for the technical problem of making money
Love ❤️ this
Loved the perspective on doing to find out what you want instead of overthinking it.
My advice these days to people who want to make the jump: have enough runway to experiment a lot and iterate. Contact with the real world will determine the rest 😀
Definitely checking out The Pathless Path.
“Opening yourself up to this emergence. It’s about growing up and letting go. It’s about realizing that if I claim to care about something, I need to be willing to act, and also be willing to be wrong. I must let go of my ego and my need to be seen as a “successful” person.”
- a must
"You can have it all, but not at once", your wife is very wise. Thanks for a great post! I highly enjoyed reading it. All the best