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Snow brushes against the window of my apartment. The flakes skirt around momentarily on the small patio before piling against the sliding glass door. It's winter, after all.



2020, this year I turn 25. I'm supposed to be well into my prime, the best years of my life before I descend into the trough of my 40s. Envelopes are scattered across my two person dining table, reminding me the government turning cogs behind the walls of my home. I reread a letter labelled declaring my personal… Continue

My favourite point: Innovation (often) comes from constraint (If you’ve got very few resources, you’re forced to be very creative in using and reusing them.)

The need to innovate comes from need, after all. I picked this point over understand the environment/infrastructure/etc., because innovating under constraint is a level above observing the situation you're in. To innovate under constraint, not only do you need to completely understand the situation at hand, you also need a…

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