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Tom White's avatar

Remember: slow is smooth and smooth is fast. Get after it!

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raymond's avatar

Appreciate the affirmations Tom!

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Mel's avatar

Looking forward to seeing where you go on this journey! I’ve been having veryy similar thoughts in my corporate job lately so this is motivating me to try more things and find what I want to devote my time and energy to building instead

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raymond's avatar

Glad you can relate! Yeah it's a trial and error process and not easy to balance with a full time job, but keep following your interests and good things will come

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Chef Chris 🎃's avatar

So cool to read about your journey! Thank you for sharing it. I love that you tried many things before landing on what you love. I did the same before I found my number one creative passion. Excited to tag along your story and get inspired!

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Victor's avatar

Love it! Great David Foster Wallace quote too. Just take his advice with a grain of salt seeing how he ended up LOL. He wrote profoundly about how we all choose something to worship in life, we must choose, there is no not-choosing. You've just got to choose wisely. Hope it turns out well!

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raymond's avatar

Appreciate you Victor. There’s definitely a fine line between over philosophizing and, to put it very bluntly, living semi-oblivious. A balance is needed to keep pushing forward while being grateful for what we have today

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Suraj Zaveri's avatar

Doing hard things is fulfilling. And conventional success, after you achieve a little, doesn't feel as hard. Well said

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Joe Hovde's avatar

Excited to follow along!

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

Are you really a writer if you've never considered college essay coaching?

So excited to what you're gonna cook!!

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Connor Lee's avatar

Excited for your new endeavor! I feel like Simon Sinek does a great job here not only highlighting exemplay leadership qualities but also the how have great leaders built great things. Connect with others, share your "why", and shoot for the moon

https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action

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raymond's avatar

Thanks man, listening to the talk right now!

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Kayla Zhang's avatar

really loved this one, Raymond. excited to see your clothing brand grow! rooting for you always

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John Kim's avatar

Please make a cool clothing brand for short guys! Don’t want to tailor every stupid pair of pants I buy!!

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raymond's avatar

100%, I'll be working with a friend who is very obsessive about fit!

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Scantron's avatar

Think you would enjoy George Heaton and Ross McKay. George is building/built Represent and he does blogs/podcasts. He’s also a phenomenal athlete through it all, which is inspiring!

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raymond's avatar

That's sick! I'll have to start following their stuff

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Devin Juros's avatar

🫨 tell me where to send my money!

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Jess's avatar
Apr 3Edited

I so resonate with the urgency to build! Excited to see updates on what you learn

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