When I was 16 and in high school in Ireland, I visited Cambridge. While there, I cold emailed @paulg.
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He agreed to meet and proceeded to spend most of a day with me, giving advice and figuring out ways he could help.
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Since then (and long before anyone had heard of Stripe), I found countless other successful Valley folks inexplicably ready to assist.
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The gray zone between extreme competitiveness and meanness has no doubt led many prominent names to make many unethical choices.
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But from everything I’ve seen & heard, being nice does seem to be a growing advantage in the increasingly connected communities we inhabit.
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@patrickc “Nice” could be: avoiding hurting other's feelings (at all costs), or wanting others to like you (at all costs). Both fatal flaws1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@jasoncrawford Yep, agreed. 140 chars got in the way of a longer meditation on goodness :-)
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