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A few years I met a guy, let’s call him Jim, who was trying to break in tech by going to a bootcamp to become a developer. In the meantime, he worked as a bartender and had been living off the support of his girlfriend, who was from a well-off family and Jim was her trophy boyfriend. He approached me because he was really into startups and wanted to become a tech entrepreneur, and make the big bucks. His motivations notwithstanding, he was currently struggling with a routing issue in his food delivery app project, and asked for my help, which indicated to me that Jim is years, probably decades away from fulfilling his billion dollar startup dream. After helping him debug it, we exchanged contacts and kept in touch.,A few years I met a guy,

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Make a superb bowl of Vietnamese pho ga (chicken noodle soup) with rich, aromatic broth and fall-off-the-bone tender chicken in 30 minutes using a pressure cooker.,Make a superb bowl of Vietnamese pho ga (chicken noodle soup) with rich, aromatic broth and fall-off-the-bone tender chicken in 30 minutes using a pressure cooker.