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It's weird. I'm always spending so many hours at work and on various projects, trying to plan things and have goals. Then one day I came home late and agitated and just wrote an unplanned post in four hours with no edits and it's perhaps the most impactful thing I've ever done.
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More than 20,000 people read that post in the first couple of weeks when the mainstream position was still that COVID isn't a serious worry. If just 1% of my readers avoided getting sick (and infecting others) because they read it, that's probably several lives saved.
I don't know what the moral is. All the big successes in my life like writing that post or meeting my wife and best friends or getting my current job feel a bit random and lucky. It's not that they could happen to 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺, but they could easily have 𝘯𝘰𝘵 happened to me.
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"Just put yourself in good situations and wait to get lucky but also act as if you're not waiting for luck and you actually have a plan" is weird as far as advice-for-success goes. And one problem is you don't even know if you're doing it well until a decade has passed. 🤷‍♂️
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