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4 years ago today i quit my agency PM job with 7 months of savings and a half working invoice API. i rewatch this every year on the anniversary. yes it's cheesy. the connecting the dots part still gets me

Jo Brennan@jo_ships

May 27, 2026

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Achieng Owino@achieng_devrel
Happy quitiversary! Seven months of savings is brave. Most people I know in Nairobi who tried it had three.
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Jo Brennan@jo_ships
it was 7 months on paper and 4 months in reality because i forgot to budget for health insurance. america 🙃
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Karl Lindqvist@kernel_karl
He credits "stay hungry, stay foolish" to the back cover of the Whole Earth Catalog in that same speech. Good taste in sources, at least.
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Sam Whitaker@segfault_sam
on my quitiversary i reread my old managers teams messages instead. different kind of motivation
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Jo Brennan@jo_ships
that's dark. i love it
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Sofía Ramírez@sofi_dev_mx
lo guardé, gracias. needed this today honestly, rough week
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