Just because you’ve been doing something for a long time and can do it well doesn’t mean you should keep doing it.
It’s worth stepping back occasionally to ask: Is this still how I want to spend my time and energy, or is inertia making that decision for me?↗
I tried asking myself what I'd learned after 40, and it turned out to be a lot of the most important stuff I know. At least 90% of what I know about startups, because I was 40 when we started YC. Plus everything I know about parenting and most of what I know about writing.↗
You will thank yourself for sending this prompt to Fable:
"Read this article and let me know what you would recommend doing off the back of this, whether it's sending things to [project]'s codebase to investigate stuff, asking me questions, or whatever else you recommend. Whethe…↗
As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.↗