Andrew Ross Sorkin

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But then that person might say, as if this is so hard to figure out, that person might say, you can't just decide which of my items you're going to throw away.

It's very valid.

It's more valid than my point of view, which is like being an adult, come talk to me about it.

But I knew I was not in a headspace to have a gentle, civilized conversation.

talk about it.

The right thing would probably just been walk away because I bet tomorrow wouldn't bother me nearly as much as it did in that moment.

It wouldn't have gone well, yeah.

It was the least worst option.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I hope so.

But what I have to do—

In these situations where I've done something and I feel very validated in my decision or very confident.

What I do that helps me is I transplant this person.

I transplant Delta onto this person.

And then when I imagine throwing anything of Delta's away, I feel terrible.

Because Delta also has a lot of things.

And they all have a very special meaning.

So then that was step two.

So I'd already kind of snapped and I threw something away.