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"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet."

The first rule of YCombinator is..

This is a good essay. My mother has a basement full of stuff, hallways full of stuff, and recently moved into my grandmother's house and filled her living room with stuff. Magazines, boxes.. Any average person would be appalled.

She'd probably read this essay and go "Hmm.. Yeah, that's about right", then go buy another piece of furniture from Ikea.



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