Wahini Vara

We'd both spent many years creating something that we cared deeply about.

I with my journalism, she with her startup, and then gone on to focus on empowering others to do the same.

She said she'd been surprised to find that mentoring other founders was even more meaningful than running her own startup.

In business terms, the ROI was higher, if you were willing to count fulfillment as a return.

I guess, yeah, now we have a spoiler that I'm going to read you something from me.

Okay.

I had an audience of one myself.

Much better.

I don't know.

I'd like to argue that we write because we feel compelled to.

no matter whether anyone will read them.

But is that true?

Wait, we write, what is the them referring to?

It's an error.

It's a grammatical error on my part.

Look at me.

Okay, so.

And good job catching it because a lot of people assumed that one was AI.

And I think the best indication that it was actually me is that there is that grammatical error because AI wouldn't have made a grammatical error like that.

You know, I was of two minds, because on the one hand, I didn't feel threatened, but I found myself...