🦄 Startups & VC 16h ago · Justin Brown

I realized last month that the reason I keep my calendar full isn’t because I love being busy, it’s because an empty Tuesday afternoon feels like an accusation I don’t have an answer to

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I realized last month that the reason I keep my calendar full isn’t because I love being busy, it’s because an empty Tuesday afternoon feels like an accusation I don’t have an answer to
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The blank Tuesday afternoon showed up on my calendar last month like a mistake. Two hours, no meetings, no calls, no edits due. I stared at it the way you might stare at a stranger sitting in your usual seat. Then I did what I have done for years without ever quite noticing: I filled it. A coffee I did not need. A call that could have been an email. A walk-and-talk with a colleague about something we had already decided.
Only later, walking back to my apartment in Singapore, did I clock what had

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