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Love is the Tuesday evenings, not the Friday nights

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On a conversation I just had with Preston Rack :)

When I was little, I would bring my homework with me in the stroller when my mom took me on walks (she didn’t tell me to do this lol). It’s one of my earliest memories. I’ve always been an “optimizer.” I won my elementary school’s walkathon, got perfect grades, went to Columbia, ran the New York Marathon in college, started a company. Optimizing was reliable. Pick a goal, and do whatever it takes to get there. So, when I started dating my first serious partner in the same city, I did what I’d always done with something I cared about. I optimized. We went to expensive dinners, rooftop…

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