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Avoid "skip" and "path," which suggests skipping down a path. "If doing that requires giving up what you like" is clearer. Also, "locally unambiguous" should never leave its Power Point deck. Stay tuned, I'll tell you how to fund early-stage startups at unprecedented scale.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1197870463940202496 …

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Minor secret of good writing: be locally unambiguous. Instead of "if you skip doing what you like to follow that path," write "if you skip doing what you like in order to follow that path," even though it's longer. Otherwise "what you like to follow" seems a phrase at first.

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