The thread kept unraveling.
Until one morning, I sat at my desk to craft yet another press release touting yet another "game-changing" startup that had raised - yet another - $25 million. And I realized I couldn't remember the last time I'd written something I believed in. The words that used to flow felt like trying to squeeze ancient toothpaste from an empty tube.
That was the day I cracked.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/6-months-ago,-i-left-the-bullshit-industrial-complex
@Daojoan but if you shifted some paradigms, that made it all worthwhile, right?
Right?
@Daojoan Very inspiring!
I have myself left the #fintech world to become a #teacher, I'm proud of my #lifechange, but after more than 6 months, I must confess that it's still hard. I live every day of it, but I'm much further away from my comfort zone than when I was working there, even when I battling to "over exceed my objectives".
So let's not give up, follow our dreams and stick to our core #values.
Keep up the great work! šŖš¼
@Daojoan Itās a nice piece.
I enjoyed the pizza tech start-up one too.
Is there an old pizza pie business you can interview?
@Daojoan Thank you so much.
I cracked in late 1998 as the first internet bubble in Sweden was inflating at an unreasonable rate. I couldnāt build for scale while giving no shits whatsoever to the actual web service being built. It was early in my career and I didnāt quit knowing what to do instead, and a life long meandering career in applied informatics (?) followed. Still confused but yourā¦ (1/2)
"But I have zero faith in the idea that unfettered vulture capitalism and a blind pursuit of "disruption" will lead us to a better world.ā
ringes so true to me today, and I saw the early phases of it in Sweden in the late 1990ās. It was such a corruption of the spirits and ethos of the Well where I spent my āwebāformative years 1992-94. (2/2)
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