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The Stripe executive on leadership, linguistics, and literature.

Aug 20, 2023
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To write an average business book, an author requires: a reliable laptop, a willing publisher, a decent, celebratory social media audience, a sense of great import, and a twenty-page conceit stretched to a two-hundred-page length. 

We have all read this book. In all likelihood, we have read many versions of it: on the life-c…

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