A reminder from Atomic Habits by James Clear:
“It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment.”
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
summer 2015, i had just moved to the US for YC, still scared of speaking english. i was big fan of PG and everyone at YC who wrote, sam was not my partner but i was so curious and saw how everyone around him acted a bit intimidated by him.
i meet sam during our office hours and i start by asking him “are you a supernatural person or phenomena, why is everyone so scared of you” he laughed a lot, then asked me my story, then tweeted this, then invited me to his sf apartment for tea and to go through his sneaker/shoes. worked with me on my pitch deck, introduced me to alfred lin (big Zappos fan here!) when i asked.
years later when i was starting something new and didn’t want to raise money from anyone, i asked him anyway he declined but was kind and supportive about it.
i sent him a late wedding gift, a painting my daughter aliff made when she was two, because i wanted to remind him what matters. i’m glad he’s a father now.
i don’t know the man in the article everyone is reading. i never worked with him directly. i know the one who laughed at my strange question and then asked me mine. admittedly i don’t know how to hold both and i’m not trying to.