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I used to go to sleep worrying about all the things I messed up that day -- and trust me that list was often quite long.
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It's said there is no "I" in team, which is true, but there is definitely a lot of trying to work out how much "I" messed things up.
I brainstormed the things I had messed up and wrote a title for each: raised too much money, wasn't passionate about the industry, hired too senior of people, built too many products & over spec'd them, internationalized too early, etc. Next, I imagined a story I would tell for each topic and what image would represent that story.
One of the privileges of writing columns like this is that I can say "you" when I mean "I" and pretend that the things I routinely mess up are universal foibles rather than the singular errors of my own stupidity.
He said he knew where his things were and if I messed that up by putting things in my idea of order, he wouldn't know where everything was.
"I messed things up, so I figured I needed a chance to make them right again.
Really, I messed things up by reading this book first out of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels.
"There was really nothing Andy could do unless I messed things up".
"Had a bad judgment I love my kids and my kids love me there honor roll students my oldest son is about to graduate they play sports and have a ruff over there head that I own and food, and things they just want I messed up give me a chance to prove my self I don't have to prove shit to none of u just my children n they know who I am and who I'm not".
Don't answer those emails that go, "I'm sorry I messed things up but I want to be in your life again".
"Ultimately, I'd love to tag with him again, and win the titles so we could at least defend them together once," said Jeff of his long-term ideal, "Just to make my soul feel a little better about the way I messed things up.
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