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how to make outsized bets - Jasmine Wu

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an exploration over agency and optimizing growth trajectories

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I’m spending my time. They say time moves faster when you enter your 20s. When you live your day-to-day, it’s hard to extract out the big “life” picture to make sure you’re working on the right thing. For the past 7 months, I’ve been shifting from hyper-public roles (hackathons, organizing design competitions, achievement stacking) into more intimacy-coded projects (technical projects, cultivating 2-3 relationships deeply, actually studying more). Here, there aren’t many short term bursts of achievement you can use to measure progress. The tasks…

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