Keeping Your Options Open is Ruining Your Life - by megan
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A reflection in SF on startup culture, indecision, and what it means to truly be free
I made a spontaneous trip to San Francisco in the middle of July this summer. I hadn’t visited since I did summer school there when I was 10. It’s a rather pleasant city. You turn a corner and the street drops away so steeply it feels like it might continue straight into the bay; you climb a few steps and suddenly the water is there, framed between rooftops and telephone wires, shifting with the fog. The city almost seems to reveal itself in fragments rather than panoramas. I was there, primarily, to visit friends. They, like everyone else in San Francisco, were doing startups. Over the…
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