Author: cahouser
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What Would Life Be Like if Rejection Didn’t Hurt?
After a big win, I am basking in a specific emotional state not unlike Mario when he eats a star. It’s a cocktail of joy, optimism, confidence, and forward momentum. This feeling is rare. I don’t want to squander it.
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A Review of Buildspace’s Nights and Weekends Program
TL;DR: If you want to bring an idea into the world, you should do this program…with a few caveats. Thanks to Buildspace, I found myself in the running for $100,000 last week. I was one of 16 people—whittled down from 7,500—who had a shot. I didn’t win it. But it doesn’t matter. My ROI from […]
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Beating Perfectionism Means Striving For Collisions, Not Beauty
Tuning forks produce ethereal, harmonically pure musical tones. Musicians use them to tune their instruments. The crystal clear, frequency-perfect note vibration is a precursor to a violinist or cellist producing a dazzling piece of music. But what comes before that gorgeous, sustained ringing of the tuning fork? A big, dumb collision. A gesture devoid of […]
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Be Careful What You Carry
I was sitting on the trunk of my beat up Honda in a nondescript apartment complex parking spot. Waiting for my bass player Monty to hop in my car so we could drive to practice. My amplifier was in the backseat poking out of the open window. The scene was an accurate depiction of life […]
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The Beautiful Game
I remember two things from my first trip to Argentina. The first is that I ate steak for lunch and dinner for eight days in a row. The second is the story of my first proper Latin American soccer experience. This is that story.
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The Reversal
In the beginning, fathers embarrass their sons. Later, sons embarrass their fathers. And if embarrassing your son is cool, my dad was Miles Davis. For some kids, their dads yell too loud at a soccer game. For others, dad oversteps from chaperoning to moonwalking at the middle school dance. For some, it’s post-workout grunting while […]