Packy McCormick: evaluation

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…Whoa. My mom said that my dad went to the [...] school of parenting for this. I actually think it was awesome because what he was mad about wasn't that I got a C+, that wasn't the big deal. It was that I lied all semester and said that I was doing really well in the class. So I thought that was the best parenting lesson that I could have ever received because it was a really good lesson both in honesty and in work ethic. After that, I actually started trying in French and I ended up taking it all the way through college and got pretty good at it. I can't really speak of it anymore. But it was a really good lesson that if you're not going to do well, at least be honest about the fact that you're not going to do well. So now I think, when I get things wrong in Not Boring, I'd blare it from the rooftops and probably come back to that moment. Yeah, you feel an intense need to own the mistake. There's a tweet that you had around the Crypto Winter where you said, them's the rules, you got to play fair. I think you were owning the fact that a lot of things that you thought were going to go up did not go up.…

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