HeyJaredThe Unoptimized Life
Poking holes in the advice that didn't work for me, because we don't need to be optimized to be human.
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The Social Bandwidth Law (opens the original)
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I left accounting and can’t go back (opens the original)
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Finding the central through-line of my first novel (opens the original)
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I Started Writing a Novel at 33 (opens the original)
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