Built Savorable.

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…It's trite. It's not sophisticated and it's more of a concept than a phrase, but it's something around the idea that life is short. I'm just so aware that time ticks by and we all live on autopilot. So much of what we do is inspired by either our insecurities or things that other people we look up to or envy do. Very rarely making contact with what we really want and following our hearts and our heads. And we just kind of get stuck in these lanes and just live out our days. And certainly when you get 41 now, you get to 41 and thankfully still very young, anyone in their forties, congrats, should feel good about that. But I know if you're in your twenties or thirties, 40 feels old. But when you're in your forties, my experience is that the weeks and the months and then the years go by. It's not a big deal. I'm back at Intercom two and a half years now to any of these kids in AI in their twenties. If they don't get something done or achieved by next month, they'll be so disappointed themselves and so impatient. And in some ways, at least when it comes to productivity, they're better at getting more out of the time. But I'm now trying to get more life out of the time too. So, just, if there is a motto, it's like life is short or memento mori, we're all on the way out. So, make the use of what you've got. Fun fact, I built an app once called Savorable that helped you savor the moment, it was called Savorable and it sent you a text every few hours, I don't know, maybe once a day with a little reminder of way to savor the moment. And one of the texts was just like, remember, you will die. Yeah. And the problem is that even that idea, we forget it instantly. And if you start getting text every day, you'll ignore the text. Try to fault. We just don't want to acknowledge that reality on a day-to-day basis. Maybe that's important.…

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