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> And you get that salary and learning even if your investors are awful and push you to do terrible things and you agree to do those terrible things and they tank the company. In the worst case, it’s a free education with room and board included.

If you’re learning as much at terrible companies as at good ones, then you’ve had rotten luck. A lot of what I’ve learned at rotten companies is how not to do things, and how important mental health is to physical health. There’s much more negative space than positive space, so you have to learn hundreds of ways not to do something for every handful of ways that actually are sustainable.




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