I’m going Founder Mode on my cancer - by Sid Sijbrandij
Elliot Hershberg’s article about my cancer journey gave language to something I’d been doing instinctively over the past year: managing my health in Founder Mode.
Elliot Hershberg’s article about my cancer journey gave language to something I’d been doing instinctively over the past year: managing my health in Founder Mode. Manager mode assumes that existing systems will surface the best options. When I was first diagnosed with cancer in 2022, I delegated the crucial analyses and decisions about my care to others. In late 2024, when my cancer reappeared and my doctors told me I had exhausted the standard of care and there were no trials for my situation, I realized that assumption might, quite literally, kill me. Founder Mode was my only option.…
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