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Last Year I Graduated College and Launched a Startup

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Re: Last Year I Graduated College and Launched a Startup

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post #8

"You will accumulate life debt the more you try to bullshit your way through. The embarrassment you think you will experience is nothing compared to outsized intellectual and experiential debt." This is a true gem. Thanks for reminding me of that.

I wish I understood what that sentence is supposed to mean. "Life debt"? It seems to be in code, or shorthand, or jibberish.

Re: Last Year I Graduated College and Launched a Startup

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post #11
post #8

"You will accumulate life debt the more you try to bullshit your way through. The embarrassment you think you will experience is nothing compared to outsized intellectual and experiential debt." This is a true gem. Thanks for reminding me of that.

I wish I understood what that sentence is supposed to mean. "Life debt"? It seems to be in code, or shorthand, or jibberish.

What I take from it is say "I don't know" more often.

One can easily bullshit the first time through, but then there is no one to learn from, and you have to keep pretending you know something you don't.

Yes personal experience

A wise head on some young shoulders it seems is our Mr Shah.

Good luck at whatever comes after Yammer :-)

Re: Last Year I Graduated College and Launched a Startup

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ouch. Sorry that was your experience with this post. I'm currently drafting a more detailed account with more color that you might find more up your alley.

My response was probably a little harsher than it should've been. I still found the advise an interesting read, just very disappointed not to find the story. Looking forward to your next post.

You were not harsh. It really was a boiler plate article. The title of the post did not match what I thought the article would contain (a unique personal story).

It is good feedback for the author. Don't be afraid to be honest.

Re: Last Year I Graduated College and Launched a Startup

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post #11
post #8

"You will accumulate life debt the more you try to bullshit your way through. The embarrassment you think you will experience is nothing compared to outsized intellectual and experiential debt." This is a true gem. Thanks for reminding me of that.

I wish I understood what that sentence is supposed to mean. "Life debt"? It seems to be in code, or shorthand, or jibberish.

The way I understand it, it means missed days, opportunities and chances. Every day you try to trick the system (meaning life), it teaches you by taking away a day from you. Now it can take that day in a good way (you learnt something) or it can take that day in a bad way (you wasted a valuable 24 hours of your life that you'll never get back).

Re: Last Year I Graduated College and Launched a Startup

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First time I read the post, I found it to be a bit boler-plate. But then I re-read it, while thinking about the person who posted it.

You just graduated college. You havent lived that much. Still you had the guts to go out and get what you want. Due to the fact that your experience is limited, you can't seem to say anything us old-schoolers haven't heard or said before.

But you have something better than advice to talk about. You have the unique perspective of being a young twenty-something business person. Talk about that. Let us see the world through your eyes. Your frustrations, pains, and achievements. Tell us how you are sharpening your newly minted skills.

I wish you the very best of luck.

Re: Last Year I Graduated College and Launched a Startup

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish I understood what that sentence is supposed to mean. "Life debt"? It seems to be in code, or shorthand, or jibberish.

The way I understand it, it means missed days, opportunities and chances. Every day you try to trick the system (meaning life), it teaches you by taking away a day from you. Now it can take that day in a good way (you learnt something) or it can take that day in a bad way (you wasted a valuable 24 hours of your life that you'll never get back).

Sounds fine, but -- to me -- like many of the other points in the piece, it applies equally both before and after graduation from college. I think a lot of college kids fool themselves into thinking what they do during college doesn't matter; they'll start anew and turn over a new leaf when they graduate and "adult life begins". It doesn't work, those sorts of rationalizations are similar to New Year's Resolutions, which also don't work. Adult life doesn't start with a blank slate after college graduation; college kids are already living their lives and, to use the author's own term, amassing their own life debt.
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