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The article started well until it changed from "you" to "I". After that, it felt like a mix of bragging and trying to sell a book.

I think its OK if some people don't get to live their dream jobs, some dreams have no equivalent in real life, and some people need to do the mundane, boring underground jobs that keep things together.

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It didn’t catch me in the widely cast net.

I didn’t match the 1) nice place, 2) family and friends.

Apparently an ad huh.

Solve your two problems first! I do think this resonates with a lot of especially YC founders who have broken through 1 and 2 but are missing the most important 3.

Go pay for the book then!

But founders aren’t a big enough target demographic to make money on I guess.

There's so little meaning (other than "Buy My Book!") in the latter part of the post that I thought I read the same paragraph 20 times

Worse, it's canvassing for a political movement.

I will keep arguing that canvassing for a political movement is the highest potential thing most Americans could be doing now. I'm not talking about running for office yourself. You don't have to do it full-time. But try it. Focus on one issue and one bill. You could solve a key problem in weeks. See how this changes your life!

Fine, just don't masquerade your canvassing as something that's supposed to help with your mental health.

If you vote with your feet, you can solve many structural problems with a time investment of only 2-5 years.

Depends if you behave like some current canvassers and/or candidates. Of course, I mean those who are straight forward corrupt liars.

And the problem is there seems to be no shortage of canvassers who'll advocate for such candidates.

So, your 'highest potential' argument is somewhat poisoned.

Made some edits last night. But I think the post still stood up 95%+.

The middle is full of stories of how I failed for years.

I think I can help you, here's how I failed, then succeeded, you can too!

And my book is truly the next step.

If you liked these ~2,000 words, there's 20x more in Positive Politics!

I specifically believe Positive Politics can best utilize the ambitious optimism of e.g. YC founders to solve the world's biggest problems!

yes, felt like one long humble brag after that. how tiresome.

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