Now, I want to begin with a personal story about a crack. When I was around five years old, I was diagnosed with a congenital heart condition. The doctors told me and my family that this child has only a 50% chance of surviving until heart surgery. And after that, every night going to sleep felt like a coin toss. And this instilled in me an urgency and a key lesson that I don’t have time to wait for perfection. I adopted a mantra that I call “Publish Before I Perish.” I document every lesson that I learned throughout the day, first on cassettes and then floppy disks, and now the internet.

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