Back in November, just before moving to NY, I wrote a post about living and working in San Francisco/Silicon Valley, along with some of the lessons I’d learned. I decided not to publish because I was a little overwhelmed by life and couldn’t tell if it was any good. 
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I just re-read my draft and while the part about my personal journey feels a little too self indulgent (heh), maybe there’s some value in putting the lessons learned during my 11 years in Silicon Valley out into the wild. So I’m going to be lazy and do it in twitter form.
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1) There’s opportunity in what others undervalue.pic.twitter.com/vMJmEOUUwU
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2) There’s nothing more dangerous early in your career than success.pic.twitter.com/2CqaA0tylb
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3) Some reputations are built on surprisingly little.pic.twitter.com/9uSiZXHhaJ
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4) Your former coworkers are your rocks, so keep them close.
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That's all I've got! Happy Puppy Bowl Sunday!
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A few people asked for this as a consolidated blog post (so much for innovating on format!), so I've caved. Thank you all for reading!https://medium.com/@ashleymayer/four-lessons-after-eleven-years-in-silicon-valley-d87507b7a4f6 …
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This is great and really resonated with me!! I actually wrote something similar about my observations of SF after moving to Salt Lake Ctiy recently and have been too shy to publish
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I’m always super conflicted about sharing my writing, but (so far) I’ve never regretted it so I encourage you to publish yours!
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