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After a few months, we scrapped the whole system. No more half days. We organized our time into bigger chunks—weeks, months. We started taking a macro view of our projects. And that enabled us to build the V1 of Velo in about eighteen months. Then we handed it, gleaming and new, to sales and marketing.
In the end, he decided to go along with them. “We had to appeal. I wasn’t going to give in to a set of conditions which were going to make us noncompetitive. So basically I had no choice. We don’t bluff. It’s not my style anyway. Over a lifetime, you’ll get a reputation for either bluffing or not bluffing. And therefore, I want it to be understood that I don’t do it.”
The Snowball
Alice Schroeder
Why again, with all that I know, was it initially hard for me to just accept the darn feeling? Well, since you’re asking, I’ll tell you! I was sure my son was having an outsized reaction to a trivial matter. To me, a missed TV show does not qualify as worthy of a meltdown. But a child’s emotions are just as real and important to him as our grown-up emotions are to us. The best way to help a child “get over it” is to help him go through it.
How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen
Joanna Faber and Julie King
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