Post by Mark Orester
Co-founder SocialGuide | TUM | SWE for YC startups (2x)
π πΉπ²π³π π¦π. 3 months ago I posted that I moved there. Everyone posts about arriving. Nobody posts about leaving. β¨ The Arrival Post β¨ is itβs own genre. I've read it a hundred times. I wrote a version too. It ALWAYS has one of two photos in front of the Golden Gate Bridge: 1) squinting because the light is too bright. 2) a selfie from a weird angle. I chose 1). It also includes at least one of these: "ππ π©π’π΄ π’π― πͺπ―π΄π’π―π¦ π΅π’ππ¦π―π΅ π₯π¦π―π΄πͺπ΅πΊ." "ππ©π¦ π΄πΆπ³π§π’π€π¦ π’π³π¦π’ π°π§ π΄π¦π³π¦π―π₯πͺπ±πͺπ΅πΊ πͺπ΄ π³π¦π’π." "ππ΅'π΄ π―π°π΅ π’π£π°πΆπ΅ π΅π©π¦ π€πͺπ΅πΊ, πͺπ΅'π΄ π’π£π°πΆπ΅ π΅π©π¦ π±π¦π°π±ππ¦." I wanted to write a light-funny-haha-huhu "my top 5 learnings from 6 months in SF" post. Make a few jokes about how Americans think everything is AMAAAAAZING and AWESOOOOME. Call it a day. But idk. The more I wrote, the more personal and less light-funny-haha-huhu LinkedIn it got. If the gap between who you are and who you think you could become has ever felt like something you weren't allowed to claim out loud, maybe read it.
