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Do what you want to become I was listening to a childhood friend talk about his business’ financials when I had a realization; the thing that is so insidious about many who orient their lives around a standardized career (I have in mind my father’s career as an investment banker) is not so much that it wastes the golden years of their lives, or that they per se lose the activities and hobbies that were so dear to them. No. It is that they lose affordances; their way of being constricts. When my father would walk me around Hong Kong, he taught me to see through his eyes. And what he saw was the

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