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Essays
2025
1997: Steve Jobs’s Miracle Year
5 Sept
The Wilderness Years • Apple in free fall • Apple’s acquisition of NeXT • The beginnings of a strategy • Steve’s resurgence • A new era for Apple
2024
How I got an O-1 visa as a software engineer / founder
21 Jan
Jump ahead • Timeline • Meeting the extraordinary ability criteria • How much does it cost? • Should you work with a lawyer?
2020
What is Structured Conversation?
11 Feb
So what is a structured conversation?
My week at the Insight Meditation Society
9 Jan
Not discipline, but renewed energy • Permission to integrate the teachings into life. • A renewed understanding of presence