its been a wild year of discovery working w a therapist, in the past week i& #39;ve had two personal discoveries i& #39;d like to share for no reason in particular
everyone& #39;s openness to risks is different; there& #39;s no objective truth for what& #39;s risky. for example: entrepreneurs who put pressure on others to also be entrepreneurs — there& #39;s a fine line between inspiring and (unintentional) shaming

i& #39;ll take a risk when conditions are right
2. i knew this, but im super insecure, and in that insecurity i distanced myself from the design tooling space after leaving fb — claiming to be "bored/done" with the space, when in reality i still actually enjoy it

however, the insecurity was unhealthy — so i had to deal w/ it
while at fb working on things like origami, i had to mute "framer" (sorry yall) on twitter because every time i saw a new fancy feature video i felt immense stress, envy, and pressure to compete

i declined all convos with design tools companies during my job hunt last year
but i still think about the space a lot! as a designer who plays a pm role, i lament the lack of tooling for those who think like me, where UI design is second to framing and scoping
3. theres rarely a decision that& #39;s clearly right or wrong. when thinking about life choices (e.g. career), listening to what you want, and not what you "should do" is really difficult to do, but also don& #39;t worry too much
to quote from a friend ( http://mclean.xyz"> http://mclean.xyz ), the person who you are today is not who you will be a year from now — you will not have the same framework for evaluating regret, you will have changed with the path you chose
at first when i heard this i had a hard time processing it — it felt like one had "too much control" over how they saw things. which when i say out loud, feels really silly.

im still working on tackling this deep belief that you can control your own perception to anything
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