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Do Important Things - Shyam Sankar

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Do important things. Work on big problems. Change the world for the better. You’ve probably heard countless variations on these themes, but how often have you considered that they might actually be possible, and what it would take to get there? Even more radically, what if you could start working towards such lofty goals right now? It’s certainly easy to get fired up about such possibilities in the abstract. It’s equally easy to get discouraged when asking yourself the hard but vital question of how best to make it happen. There are no step-by-step guides for how to make a massive impact, and that isn’t my goal here either. Instead, what I want to give you is a framework for doing things that matter. As an entrepreneur, I’ve learned the hard way that plans are fragile – as the saying goes, no plan survives first contact. However, frameworks can be extremely useful – especially when you have outsized goals. Changing the world is a fine guiding principle, but without any furth

Do important things. Work on big problems. Change the world for the better. You’ve probably heard countless variations on these themes, but how often have you considered that they might actually be possible, and what it would take to get there? Even more radically, what if you could start working towards such lofty goals right now? It’s certainly easy to get fired up about such possibilities in the abstract. It’s equally easy to get discouraged when asking yourself the hard but vital question of how best to make it happen. There are no step-by-step guides for how to make a massive impact, and

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