By Larry Chiang
Have you ever been broken broken?
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Larry Chiang @duck9 (@LarryChiang) |
Let’s define brokenness…
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Paul Graham (@paulg) |
Brokenness = potential energy. Anything badly broken is a dam holding back a lake of unrealized desires. A startup that can bore a hole through such a dam can liberate all that energy.
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What happens when you fix being broken on a micro level as a 39 year old
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Larry Chiang @duck9 (@LarryChiang) |
“I just had a mild orgasm”
-Tom Brady. Ep 2; season 1..[hes doing #chap11 think and grow rich and #ch7. It’s rechanneling sex energy into production” #tomHouse #ch5 twitter.com/larrychiang/st… |

Brokenness can lead to innovation and getting over the hump of activation energy and momentum
Blogged from my personal iPhone XM (iPhone 990) number that Steve Jobs texted me on