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Caroline Wood
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Great post, thank you for sharing. May I ask - are you still using Beeminder or have you found another (better) tracking tool since you wrote the blog post?
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Caroline Wood
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Just backed the brother (@efrederick90)-sister duo behind @chukusldn share the beauty of African culture through Nigerian tapas food. These two rock and I can't wait to visit their first permanent restaurant. crowdfunder.co.uk/chukus
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Caroline Wood
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Caroline Wood
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EF is the best place in the world to build an important technology company from scratch. You don't need a co-founder or an idea to join, just a lot of talent and ambition. 5 days left to apply to the European cohorts starting in April. joinef.com
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Caroline Wood
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"Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe" - Douglas Adams
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Caroline Wood
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I could go on, but I'll stop there. End
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Caroline Wood
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7.2/ Some insecurity that we have we see in others as something that we don’t have. And there’s a wonderful sonnet by Shakespeare on the subject, Sonnet 29: shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/29.html
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Caroline Wood
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7.1/ We have this idea of other people as being more rich, successful, beautiful, happy, they’re in a better relationship, they have better teeth, they have thicker hair, I don’t know what the thing is, right?
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Caroline Wood
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6.3/ When you’re going through a difficult time, suddenly, some oracle from deep in the unconscious will come out, and Shakespeare will have said exactly the right thing, and you’ll then know what to do. It’s kind of this amazing strategy I’ve carried with me my whole life.
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Caroline Wood
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6.2/ And so I wanted it to be part of me. And so I started memorizing poetry as a way of bringing it into my unconscious.
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Caroline Wood
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6.1/ Since I was in my early teens, I decided that I would memorize poetry as a way of bringing the beauty of thought and language, and I always felt that poetry was one of the highest achievements of human thought, and beauty, and an embrace of the world.
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Caroline Wood
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5.2/ and then I go back to sleep and get up and carry on with my day. But without that, that talkative time where I’m uninterrupted, I’m offline. I’m free and liberated in a way that you just don’t get during the work day; it’s a magical time.
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Caroline Wood
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5.1/ I wake up in the middle of the night between 2:00 and 5:00 in the morning, and I do three hours of work. I don’t turn on the computer. I write everything on paper; I do my best thinking and writing and ideation during those hours in the middle of the night,
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Caroline Wood
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4.4/ And I think that that’s another thing that happened at the very beginning of Airbnb, it was very much about people coming together in a very essential and human way. And that was what set those companies on such a strong foundation
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Caroline Wood
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4.3/ And Kickstarter had that. And there were these very person-to-person experiences that were manifested in places like Etsy, and Kickstarter, and Flickr, and a lot of these products at the very outset.
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Caroline Wood
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4.2/ there, and you could see that that was the genesis of, you talk about the genesis of Airbnb, or Flickr, or all those other companies, the genesis of markets was really sitting down, having a cup of tea, and negotiating for your rug. And Etsy had that, right? Etsy had that.
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Caroline Wood
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4.1/ I traveled in Syria and went to those souks, the big marketplaces in Aleppo, which have now been destroyed, tragically. That was one of the most ancient marketplaces in the world. It was like a caravansary, people would bring their camels in medieval times and form a market
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Caroline Wood
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3.2/ people in the Valley, and they lifted their eyebrows and they said, “Okay, let me get this straight. This is a bunch of women, mostly, knitting sweaters and selling it to each other?” And I said, “Exactly. Don’t you see the opportunity here?”
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Caroline Wood
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3.1/ I’m also a woman in a male dominated industry. I’m a mom. There’re many things about me that are nontypical. And when I first saw Etsy, it was the beautiful thing, and I actually took it to Reid Hoffman, who had invested in my first company Flickr, and a bunch of other
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Caroline Wood
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2/ On creativity, technology, start-ups, investing, poetry, envy, reading, and more. Some highlights...
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