"The most valuable commodity I know of is information."
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Thank you
I'm back - it was a rough week, but I cannot express profound enough thanks for all the friends I have online - and the strangers too. The power of blogs as a connective medium has never been better brought home to me.
The comments online were well thought out and meaningful - thank you to all those who commented. As for those who emailed me (both friends and strangers alike) to communicate their best wishes and relay extremely personal experiences, I cannot thank you enough. People talked about how they managed to deal with their divorces, discovering infidelity, the death of a loved one and all manner of painful experiences.
To say it floored me is an understatement. And it was all a great help. I still feel like I'm living a bad dream, but to know other people have done it before makes it much less scary. (PS I haven't managed to reply to everyone personally yet, but I will get to it.)
People sent all manner of great quotes to me too - which had helped them 'deal'. My favourite was about living with a Rocky-like attitude:
Get off your knees. Brush off your wounds and stand up. Look the world in the eye and say "Fuck you world - I'm still here. Is that the best you've got?"
What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.
Comments
Great to see you back. I was starting to worry. ;)
I thought the - 'you need God' comment was the best ...
glad to hear you're ok :-)
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I'm the co-founder and CEO of Atlassian.
I live in Sydney and San Francisco. I'm an Aussie. I travel (a lot). I learn. I read. I talk. I create. I bike. I drink. I'm all in.
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Advising startups is something I've started doing in the last year. It's a fascinating way to use one's brain and experience to solve other people's problems.
I'm loving it.
Besides the few I advise, I've invested in one, HomeThinking.
HomeThinking provides realtor reviews, ratings and metrics (qualitative and quantitive) for home sellers.
I also make a lot of small microfinance loans to entrepreneurs around the world through Kiva. Read more about my on going Kiva Challenge (update).
