If I’d taken hustle-bro-dude’s advice and done nothing but “work my butt off at the beginning,” everything I love most in my life — my kid, my spouse, my music, my teaching, my creative software work, all of it — would be…well, it wouldn’t be.
Thank you so much, younger me, for giving me the life I have now.
Thank you, younger me, for living as if life’s not all work.
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