mental frames for the future - starting from nix
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A window of opportunity opens infrequently and rarely stays open for long.
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Glacier Painting, Green and Brown, 1951 © Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust A window of opportunity opens infrequently and rarely stays open for long. When the window is open, you must jump through it with your entire will. In the process, you have to abandon your well-laid plans. On the internet, people in the tech world are sharing old screenshots of DMs from Michael Truell asking them to interview for his (then) fledgling company, Cursor. Not answering, one person jokingly bemoans (post SpaceX’s acquisition of Cursor for $60B), lost them upwards of $600M by some…
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