Legit Kratom

This post is for ambitious people (like me): 25 years ago, I went to Silicon Valley to chase my startup dreams. I quickly reached the same conclusion as Alice—I hated the culture. There’s a dark side to extreme ambition. I found the relationships to be transactional and the people narcissistic. To be clear, this single-minded, maniacal focus is what makes SV special—but it’s not my tribe. A lot of people live under the illusion that life is sequential: get filthy rich now, then build a great life later. Unfortunately it doesn’t work that way. Like a career, other dimensions of life take years and decades to cultivate. You have to do it in parallel. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more ambitious person than me (especially when I was in my 20s). But I rejected the idea that you have to choose between a great career and a great life. Then I went on to prove you can have both. (PS: One of the many things I love about Boulder is that it’s full of high ambition people… but their ambition extends beyond their work.)