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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Premium Bookmarks Creator Studio Articles Profile More Post bloc @monkbloc Article See new posts Conversation sysls @systematicls Subscribe How To Reason About A Messy Future 7 15 151 29K Introduction The first time I realized we were heading towards an inflection point was when I heard the music slowing down at my previous role, even as everyone around me pretended nothing would change. I was managing a team of close to 20 pax in a hedge fund, doing the thing I had been doing for years. For all intents and purposes, I was likely going to do even greater things there. And yet, I moved from a position people would kill for to building a startup from ground zero with a skeleton crew - a move so little understood and widely seen as crazy. With the recent news of massive layoffs, people quitting explicitly to build startups, or quietly quitting and burning tokens at night doing the
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